The Greater Trumps (Paperback) - Couverture souple

Williams, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849028885 ISBN 13 : 9781849028882

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2009

Synopsis

An unremarkable civil servant becomes the target of a nefarious plot when he inherits an early set of tarot cards and will not surrender them to the gypsy master and his grandson who hope to unlock their mystic power.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Lothair Coningsby is bequeathed an antique pack of Tarot cards, he doesn't bargain for the trouble they will cause. The terms of his inheritance mean that Lothair cannot part with the cards in life, and they are to go to the British Museum after his death. But his daughter's fiance, Henry Lee, a descendant of the Romany people, realises that Coningsby has inherited the original Greater Trumps, or Major Arcana, the most important cards in the Tarot. These cards-including the Juggler, the Hanged Man, the Falling Tower and the mysterious, unmoving Fool-were designed to represent the dance of life itself, along with a set of golden images in Henry's possession. If the two are brought together they will unleash an unknown power upon the world-and Henry is determined to gain possession of the pack. First published in 1932, The Greater Trumps is the fifth of Charles Williams's supernatural novels.

Biographie de l'auteur

Author and scholar Charles Williams (1886-1945) joined, in 1908, the staff of the Oxford University Press, the publishing house in which he worked for the rest of his life. Throughout these years, poetry, novels, plays, biographies, history, literary criticism, and theology poured from his pen. At the beginning of the Second World War the publishing house was evacuated to Oxford where, in addition to his own writing and his editorial work for the Press, he taught in the University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849028885
• ISBN 13: 9781849028882
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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