The Polyglots
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2017
352 pages
978-1-78669-479-9 (ISBN)
Description
Set in the Far East just after the First World War, Gerhardie's comic masterpiece in the tale of an eccentric Belgian family, recounted by their young English relative who comes to stay with them.
Filled with bizarre characters - depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs and sex maniacs - Gerhardie paints a wonderfully strange world where the comic and tragic are entwined.
Filled with bizarre characters - depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs and sex maniacs - Gerhardie paints a wonderfully strange world where the comic and tragic are entwined.
Reviews / Votes
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
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-479-9 (9781786694799)
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William Gerhardie
The Polyglots
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Person
William Gerhardie (1895-1977) was born in St Petersburg. Leaving Russia in the wake of the 1917 revolution, Gerhardie travelled to Siberia with the British Military Mission. After two years there, he left the army with an OBE, sailing to England by way of Singapore, Colombo and Port Said - a journey that forms the closing chapters of The Polyglots. He died in London in 1977.
Content
- 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
