eBook Coromandel ! ePub

Having read John Masters' "Bugles and a Tiger" with admiration and his "The Road Past Mandalay" with awe, this book . That map and the aching visions it caused drove Jason from.

Having read John Masters' "Bugles and a Tiger" with admiration and his "The Road Past Mandalay" with awe, this book came as a disappointment. It rambles over time and place. That map and the aching visions it caused drove Jason from his father's farm to the roistering streets of London, by ship to India and Coromandel, through the jungles and across. This book has the most important ingredient of a novel: it draws you in with its plot and its characters.

COROMANDEL! John Masters. First published by Michael Joseph Ltd 1955.

Cover by Fred Pfeiffer. The only downside of John Masters, is that he is unable to articulate an ultimate motivation for his adventurous hero. As a result, we are left a bit "hanging" at the en. .

Chapter One The girl leaned out of the casement, the leaded panes and all her face dark in the shadow of the overhanging thatch. The clock in the church tower struck twelve. The cracked notes dropped. slowly, one by one, into the moon-lit well of the green, and ran about the lanes of the village and crept down in softer echoes from the slope of the Plain beyond. The churchyard lay below the girl’s window. The gravestones shone silently with the pale fire of the night, and the shadows of them knelt in square blocks, like patient mourners, on the humps of the graves.

Coromandel! by John Masters 1955.

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015. author: John Master d. ate. te: 2004-04-07 d. dentifier: Librarian, Rashtrapati Bhavan d. dentifier. origpath: /data d. copyno: 1 d.

304 c (Читайте описание продавца BS - englishbooks, Санкт-Петербург. Here, in the story of Jason Savage, Masters goes back to the 1620s, whom myth and legend, visions and aspirations are strangely merged with the turmoil of adventure and romance. Jason was an unlettered youth on the feudal estate of the Pennels. He thought to wed with a girl of his class, but too readily forgot her in the dreams of night in fields and woods.

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December 1955 : UK Hardback.