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Pied Piper
by Shute, Nevil (Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.)
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Popular Library (Canadian) , 1963. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. M2030-Published May 1963. Trade Paperback. Normal shelf and display wear. There are no marks on the pages except book store stamp and one page clipped. Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". The story concerns an elderly Englishman, John Sidney Howard, who goes on a fishing holiday in France after the Second World War breaks out, but before the fall of France. Entrusted with the care of two British children, and overtaken by events, he attempts to return to England and safety.
Synopsis
Young Adult Novel, set in Europe in 1940. 70-year-old Englishman goes fishing in the French mountains, near the Swiss border. To amuse two children he's met, he makes a whistle from a twig of hazel bush [hence, the book's title]. When Germany invades France, he decides to go back to England, and is asked to take the children with him. Along the way, he finds another child, and another, and another, leading his young outcasts through shell-fire and sacrifice, in a search of safe haven from a world at war. A poignant sub-plot shows why this man had left England in perilous times, and how he found in France a woman who healed this poignancy (and, in the process, her own personal sorrow). The story ends in a surprisingly gratifying way. The dangers of death and war remain in the reader's heart, along with the resounding echoes of courage, honesty, love. Mostly love. Book-reviewers called it "the best story of World War II" *[Cincinnati Enquirer]* ... "piles up dramatic force -- the work of a master storyteller" *[New York Times]* ... "gripping and tender" *[New York Herold Tribune]* ... "moving, heart-warming -- (Nevil Shute's) greatest novel" *[Book Buyer's Guide]* ... "He write (in this touching book) about human beings and ordinary human emotions in a way that makes the reading of each page an unalloyed pleasure" *[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]* ...... [comments by: Billy Jack]
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Details
- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003111
- Title
- Pied Piper
- Author
- Shute, Nevil (Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Popular Library (Canadian)
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 236
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
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About the Seller
MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
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WESTBANK, British Columbia
About MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
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