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PublisherImmanion Press

ISBN-101907737812

ISBN-139781907737817

eBay Product ID (ePID)2309543497

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleMadame Two Swords

Number of Pages113 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicOccult & Supernatural, Fantasy / General, Ghost, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorTanith Lee

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.92

SynopsisAged fourteen, the narrator, in an unnamed French city, finds an old book in a second-hand shop. It's a slender volume, but remarkably well persevered; the narrator wonders who could have allowed such an exquisite artefact to end up amid piles of unwanted, unremarkable books. Surely it must be valuable? The book, she finds, contains writings of the revolutionary, Lucien de Ceppays, who lived and died in the city two centuries before. As she examines the book, she finds a small watercolour slipped between the flyleaf and the cover - a painting of Lucien himself. She feels a strange bond to the life and thoughts of this long-dead man - which blooms into what is almost an obsession. Some years later, impoverished after the death of her mother, the narrator - in a state of desperation - find herself inexorably guided to meet the peculiar and unnerving Madame Two Swords, an old woman with a history, and her own enduring bonds to Lucien - as well as the book. For the narrator, reality seems to unravel, as she begins to penetrate just how intimately she is connected with Madame Two Swords and Lucien. What is the mysterious truth behind her obsession? Perhaps she did not find the book at all - perhaps it found her. Previously published in 1988, only in a limited edition, this new edition includes illustrations by Jarod Mills.

LC Classification NumberPR6062.E4163