Great Fortune - Softcover

Manning, Olivia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749317620 ISBN 13: 9780749317621

Publisher: Random House UK, 1997

Synopsis

This first part of The Balkan Trilogy features an international cast of characters, including the eccentric Russian emigre Prince Yakimov, and portrays a city, a country at war, and the first months of a marriage of Guy and Harriet Pringle who arrive in Bucharest in the autumn of 1939.

About this title

About the Author:

Olivia Manning (1908-1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer, with a particular interest in themes of personal alienation and displacement.

From AudioFile:

This first volume of The Balkan Trilogy follows the events in Rumania just before and during World War II through the eyes of Harriet Pringle. A newcomer to Bucharest, and just married to an Englishman teaching at the University, she is in a position to meet and observe people from all walks of life in this strange new world. The Great Fortune is competently and professionally read by Harriet Walter, with good pacing and expression. This is a workmanlike production, of interest mostly because of the setting in the Balkans. J.D.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0749317620
• ISBN 13: 9780749317621
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288