Isbn: 9780919630178 - the engineer of human souls (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition; First Printing. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. D/j is rubbed with some chips on edges. Signed by author on title page.; vg/vg. First Cdn edition. Some wearing on the edges of jacket at spine. Price includes shipping and handling.; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History. As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1984, Hardcover, no statement of printing, but assumed First Canadian Edition. Book condition: light bump to the spine base, otherwise a tight unread, Fine/As New copy. Dust Jacket condition: one very tiny pin head sized, spot out at the spine base, otherwise Fine and not price clipped - jacket comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve - lovely tight copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No dust Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Canadian Edition. 571 pp, trans. by Paul Wilson; previous owner's name (in ink) on ffep, very minor soiling, dj shows minor wear (incl. tiny tear to upper edge of rear panel) & soiling.

[0-919630-17-0] 1984. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 571pp. Signed with an inscription by the translator. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. "The Engineer of Human Souls is a powerfully resonant epic novel. It bridges the Old World and the New - and it ranges in time from 1939 to the present, from the shadows of Nazi Europe to the deceptive calm of a Canadian campus". Translated by Paul Wilson. Locale: Canada; Czech Republic. (Fiction, Canadian, Fiction).…