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The Pied Piper
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York, : William Morrow, , 1942. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Owners name on inside front cover.DJ writeup pasted to inside front cover and flyleaf. First Edition. First printing (no additional printings listed). Library rubber stamping on front and rear inside covers and flyleaf's. Rear gutter separated.Otherwise unmarked.Protected in plastic.Nevil Shute at his most exciting in this gripping and tender tale of one man's thrilling rescue of seven abandoned children during the Nazi invasion of France in World War II.
Synopsis
Young Adult Novel, set in Europe in 1940. 70-year-old Englishman goes fishing in the French mountains, near the Swiss border. To amuse two children he's met, he makes a whistle from a twig of hazel bush [hence, the book's title]. When Germany invades France, he decides to go back to England, and is asked to take the children with him. Along the way, he finds another child, and another, and another, leading his young outcasts through shell-fire and sacrifice, in a search of safe haven from a world at war. A poignant sub-plot shows why this man had left England in perilous times, and how he found in France a woman who healed this poignancy (and, in the process, her own personal sorrow). The story ends in a surprisingly gratifying way. The dangers of death and war remain in the reader's heart, along with the resounding echoes of courage, honesty, love. Mostly love. Book-reviewers called it "the best story of World War II" *[Cincinnati Enquirer]* ... "piles up dramatic force -- the work of a master storyteller" *[New York Times]* ... "gripping and tender" *[New York Herold Tribune]* ... "moving, heart-warming -- (Nevil Shute's) greatest novel" *[Book Buyer's Guide]* ... "He write (in this touching book) about human beings and ordinary human emotions in a way that makes the reading of each page an unalloyed pleasure" *[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]* ...... [comments by: Billy Jack]
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003070
- Title
- The Pied Piper
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- William Morrow,
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1942
- Pages
- 306
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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