Olga Nazimov and Other Stories by Walter Lionel George (LP148)

Published 1915: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 312 + very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges. Covers slightly faded with time consistent with age. Overall a well preserved very scarce original first edition published by Mills & Boon, London. (LP148)

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The title piece is a short novel of love and betrayal involving expatriate Russians and an American visitor, set in Switzerland. This is followed by twenty-eight short stories, some of which George wrote in collaboration with his wife. George was a successful novelist, with noted liberal/left-wing sympathies; praised by George Orwell in his essay Good Bad Books (1945).

Walter Lionel George was an English writer, chiefly known for his popular fiction, which included feminist, pacifist, and pro-labour themes. Google Books...