The Aerodrome: A Love Story
by Rex Warner
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Lane / Bodley Head. London, John Lane / Bodley Head, 1941. Proof. Paperback. A very good copy. Included in Anthony Burgess's list of Ninety-Nine Novels. In the introduction Burgess recounts how he read a copy returning from the war, and was struck by it's being Kafkaesque yet incorporating the three-dimensional characters more associated with English literature. He also notes that its claim to 'be regarded as a modern classic is as sound as that of Orwell's novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four]', though less obvious given its subtlety. Less obvious too than his earlier Wild Goose Chase. A quintessentially English dystopia (perhaps it wouldn't be amiss to call it a cosy dystopia, akin to the cosy catastrophes of the subsequent decade). The dystopia in question being the aerodrome itself and the local environs. A smaller scale affair, than Orwell's and most that come thereafter. An important book, undervalued in the current day, but welcome to sit on a shelf alongside Orwell, Kafka, Zamyatin and Huxley in the great early dystopias. [Clute & Nicholls, p1299 & Burgess, p132]. Condition: Lower wrap detached, some curling to corners, reading lean and a little toning. [8123, Hyraxia Books]. . Very Good. Paperback. Proof. 1941.
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- Bookseller
- Hyraxia (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8123
- Title
- The Aerodrome: A Love Story
- Author
- Rex Warner
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Proof
- Publisher
- John Lane / Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- CATALOGUE XV,SCIENCE FICTION,PROOFS
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Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire
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