Author: GREENE, GRAHAM (1904-1991)
Title: The captain and the enemy / Graham Greene
Description: London : Penguin - Reinhardt Books 1988. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 188 pages; Physical description. : 188 p. ; 20 cm. Summary: Greene's last novel. a lonely boarding-school student encounters a secretive stranger who introduces himself simply as 'the Captain'. The boy is taken to London by the stranger and raised in odd and touching circumstances by Liza. a young woman with close but unexplained ties to the Captain. It is only when the boy grows to manhood that he will learn the shocking truth about the Captain's allegiances and activities. and will begin to understand the true nature of love. Subject: Kidnapping - England - London - Fiction. Boys - Central America - Fiction. Kidnapping - Fiction. Boys - Fiction. English fiction - 20th century. Central America - Fiction. London (England) - Fiction. Fiction in English - 1900-1945 - texts.ISBN: 1871061059. Weight in Kg appr.:

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