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The Birds Fall Down. Rebecca West. 3.60. 381 ratings59 reviews. Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.
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23 de fev. de 2024 · The Birds Fall Down. by. rebecca west. Publication date. 1966-01-01. Publisher. Viking Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
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From the 1966 Viking Press edition of The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West: Rebecca West’s completely absorbing novel is quite different from any of her others. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it uses the ingredients of an international spy thriller for thoughtful probing into timeless human motives. More than that, it tells us something a...
A confrontation in a railway carriage, similar to the one in this novel, is recorded in memoirs of the time, and the outcome changed the course of history — it helped pave the way to Lenin’s rise to power. The story is told through a half-English girl of eighteen, Laura Rowan, whose father is an M.P and whose grandfather, Count Nikolai, is an exile...
Dame Rebecca has brought her characters to life not only in their speech but in her loving period detail: the whiskers, the clocks, the carriages, dresses, and jewels — the whole fin-de-siecleatmosphere in which they are so much at home. Count Nikolai is a wonderful tall figure of an old aristocrat. The double spy — if he is one — wins our sympathy...
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The Birds Fall Down is first and foremost a mystery story; it is also a family story, a political thriller, and a philosophical drama. (Introduction) This novel is founded on a historical event: perhaps the most momentous conversation ever to take place on a moving railway train.
Fairfield. Born: December 21, 1892, London, England. Died: March 15, 1983, London (aged 90) Notable Works: “A Train of Powder” “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” “Harriet Hume” “Selected Letters of Rebecca West” “The Birds Fall Down” “The Fountain Overflows” “The Meaning of Treason” “The Return of the Soldier” “The Thinking Reed”
