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The knot of vipers

François Mauriac ; translated by Gerard Hopkins ; with an introduction by David Lodge

(Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Penguin Books, 1985

Other Title

Le noeud de vipères

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Note

Originally published: Andover : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951

Translation of: Le noeud de vipères

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In a country house deep in the Bordeaux vineyards an old man - a prosperous lawyer risen to wealth from the peasantry - writes a curse on his grasping wife, children and grandchildren, plotting their disinheritance as the consummate pleasure of a life built on avarice.

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  • NCID
    BA21878811
  • ISBN
    • 0140181520
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
  • Pages/Volumes
    208 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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