The Fifth Seal
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Hardcover_cloth. 5.75"x8" 482 pp. BOMC. Toast boards. Red title block on front w/author's initials. Red title block on spine w/matching designs.Translated by Nicholas Wreden. Author portrait by M.A. Werboff. Author's note. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slightly toned. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. DJ has edge wear w/rubs and chip in spine and does not have price. Used - Near Fine / VeryGood. Item #13799
"As the story opens they are traveling by train to Germany with Kangarov, the new Russian ambassador to that country. Among the entourage is Wislicenus, the aging spy, Tamarin, the aging General, and Nadia, the pretty young secretary of the ambassador. All these elderly characters are smitten with Nadia on level or another.
After a certain amount of time in Germany, the same characters turn up in various places on the European continent, coming and going out of each others lives. A good portion of their time is spent in France, which allows for another group of characters to emerge, namely the aging Vermadois, a famous French writer, Alvera, Vermandois' secretary, a young anarchist who commits a senseless murder while also committing a lot of senseless commentary on Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov, Cerisier, the aging attorney who becomes Alvera's defense attorney, and the aging Countess de Bellancombre and her aging husband." Jesse Hanson - Goodreads.
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