John Law: The Projector
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781147153415 (1147153418)
Publish date: March 9th 2010
Publisher: Nabu Press
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1984. I read an 1881 Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. edition:]. I'm afraid I found the principal subject of this novel - financial speculation in 18th-century France - immitigably tedious. And the "romance" side of the plot was curiously detached from it, altho' one could almost ...