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The Towers of Trebizond (Flamingo)
Rose Macauley
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Description for The Towers of Trebizond (Flamingo)
paperback. This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy showing light age and shelf wear. Title and copyright pages have been removed. Scoring to dedication page. Otherwise interior is very clean
"'Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return to High Mass.' Thus starts, with one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature, Rose Macaulay's classic novel, The Towers of Trebizond.
As wise, civilised and wholly entertaining as it was when first published in 1956, the novel tells the beautifully absurd story of the inimitable Aunt Dot, her niece Laurie and Father Chantry-Pigg – and of their expedition together to Turkey to explore the possibility of establishing a ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Flamingo London
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006544210
SKU
KMK0025106
Shipping Time
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About Rose Macauley
Rose Macaulay was born into an intellectual family in 1881 in Rugby. When she was six, the family moved to a small coastal village in Italy, where her father made a living as a translator of classical works and editor of textbooks. There, she developed a sense of adventure that was to be a dominant feature of her life.
Reviews for The Towers of Trebizond (Flamingo)
'Rose Macaulay is so artful, so witty, so responsive. The Towers of Trebizond is a book which will irradiate not only the wet afternoons of a summer holiday, but memory as well.' The Times 'Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond is an utter delight, the most brilliantly witty ... Read more