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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a collection of Geoffrey Household's short stories; thy are mostly the lighter ones and are set in England, in the Mediterranean or in Latin America.My favorite is set further east in Persia and involves an Englishman, an Asiatic Russian and an African going in search of a rumored glowing cliff. What they find justifies the title of the story: "Three Kings" ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Thirteen stories of daring and romance from a master storyteller Devenor has not had a good meal in five years. He dreams of Bucharest and the years between the wars, when he grew rich on Romanian oil, and fat on Romanian cooking. Of all the delicacies he packed into his ever-expanding belly, none were finer than those found in Gradina. It was the most decadent restaurant of the old regime, but under communism it has been thrown open to the workers, who profane its hallowed dining room with a ten-cent lunch of soup and bread. And so this portly oil magnate plots a trip behind the Iron Curtain to smuggle out Gradina's cook and sate his hunger evermore. Devenor is just one of the adventurers who star in the stories of this remarkable volume. From the islands of the Mediterranean to the peaks of the Andes, Geoffrey Household's heroes laugh at danger--but never on an empty stomach. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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