
The Polyglots
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Filled with bizarre characters - depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs and sex maniacs - Gerhardie paints a wonderfully strange world where the comic and tragic are entwined.
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Wonderfully eccentric, funny and beguilingly melancholic. Gerhardie's masterpiece A master of ironic comedy * The Tablet * Comic, full of farcical characters, while at the same time containing acts of tragedy and pathos, which are surprising as well as heart-rending... A wonderful world where comedy and tragedy intertwine' * Historical Novel Society * This story of a citizen of the world is both funny and melancholy - Dickensian in spirit yet also true to its moment in the wake of the First World War and the Russian Revolution * TLS *More details
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- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About The Polyglots
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: The Vanderflints and the Vanderphants
- Chapter 6: Aunt Teresa
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18: The Dove
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24: Màsha and Natàsha
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28: More Polyglots
- Chapter 29: And Still More Polyglots
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31: A Nest of Polyglots
- Chapter 32: The Virgin
- Chapter 33: A Nice Lesson For a Purist
- Chapter 34: Green grow the leaves on the old oak tree...
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36: Aunt Teresa Gives a Ball
- Chapter 37: Exodus of the Polyglots
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 41
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43: The Badge
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 47: The Paris of the Far East
- Chapter 48
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 50
- About William Gerhardie
- About the Introducer
- Endpapers
- About the cover and endpapers
- More from Apollo
- About Apollo
- Copyright
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