Angelo
by
Jean Giono
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846553628
ISBN-13
9781846553622
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Imprint
The Harvill Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2009
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
238 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 13.40 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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It is in the early years of the nineteenth century, the era of seditious movements to unseat those in power and destabilise monarchies - and no one has a greater appetite for fishing in these troubled waters than Laurent, whose years are belied by his youthful energy on horseback.
Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel. Travelling the roads of Provence disguised as a French workman, he falls in with an eccentric marquise, Céline de Théus, and becomes a guest at the chateau, where she lives with her elderly brother Laurent. It is in the early years of the nineteenth century, the era of seditious movements to unseat those in power and destabilise monarchies - and no one has a greater appetite for fishing in these troubled waters than Laurent, whose years are belied by his youthful energy on horseback. Now he has married a raven-haired beauty in the prime of youth, and she is not indifferent to this new Italian guest. Angelo is the archetypal novel of romance and intrigue, which Jean Giono vests with a psychological depth that transcends the genre. Readers of Angelo''s and Pauline''s adventurers in The Horseman on the Roof will welcome the opportunity to meet them both in this novel which first introduces them.
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