The Last Post
Автор:
Ford Madox FordЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
70
Description
Some time has passed since the end of the Great War and the Armistice Day celebration in A Man Could Stand Up—, and Christopher Tietjens and his partner Valentine Wannop are living together with his brother Mark and Mark’s French wife Marie Léonie in a small cottage in the English countryside.
Mark has suffered an illness and is now an invalid, tenderly cared for by Marie Léonie. Christopher has turned to dealing antique English furniture to American buyers, and is away on business for much of the novel. The Tietjens’ ancestral home, Groby, is now inhabited by an American renter, and Sylvia, Christopher’s melodramatic and treacherous...
