ISBN: 0140059369
Godina izdanja: 1981
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Olivia Manning - The Balkan Trilogy
Penguin, 1981
924 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro-

Fortunes of War #1-3

Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the advance of the German army. This classic work of post-war fiction was made into a magnificent BBC television series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.

Olivia Manning CBE was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also demonstrate strengths in imaginative writing. Her books are widely admired for her artistic eye and vivid descriptions of place.
In August 1939 she married R.D. Smith (`Reggie`), a British Council lecturer posted in Bucharest, Romania, and subsequently in Greece, Egypt and Palestine as the Nazis over-ran Eastern Europe. Her experiences formed the basis for her best known work, the six novels making up `The Balkan Trilogy` and `The Levant Trilogy,` known collectively as Fortunes of War. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death in 1980, when an adaptation of `Fortunes of War` was televised in 1987.


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