J.G. Farrell
Birth date: January 25, 1935
Died: August 11, 1979
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Later, while he was drinking tea at the table in his bedroom with three young subalterns from Captainganj a succession of musket balls came through the winder, attracted by the oil-lamp . . . one, two, three and then a fourth, one after another. The officers dived smartly under the table, leaving th...
Bookshelves: read | one-penny-wonder | historical-fiction | satire | victoriana | plague-disease | adventure | pulitzer | war | books-with-a-passport | published-1973 | subcontinent Finished on Aug 19, 2009 1 of: Siege of Krishnapur [Paperback:] By: J.G. FarrellCondition: Used - Accep...
Young Farrell has done his research, and is perhaps a little over-zealous in exploiting opportunities to display his knowledge of Victorian warfare. Some of his grisly descriptions might have been spared. At times though, the narrative sparkles with good humour, irony and the flawed intelligence of ...
I loved this, possibly (but just possibly) more than Troubles. I don't know! They are different and yet similar, which is a completely unhelpful thing to say, especially if you haven't read Troubles. But they both have eccentric British people in increasingly desperate and perilous situations under ...
Poor Major Brendan Archer has survived the Great War and sets off to Ireland to visit his mysterious fiancée, Angela, at the Majestic, the hotel owned by her family. Although he was sure that he had never actually proposed to Angela during the few days of their acquaintance, it was beyond doubt that...
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