- Biography, Women, Love in literature, Women, europe
"The four women who form the subject of this book belonged to the West ... Each found, in the East, glowing horizons of emotion and daring."
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Lesley Blanch, Leslie branch gray
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 332
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers, Phoenix / Orion Books, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781439197349
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First sentence
“FROM THE BEGINNING she had known what she wanted, and proceeded single-minded, with the force of a steam engine, towards her goal.”
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