The Chymical Wedding (superb 1st edition hardback in fine dust jacket) flat signed by the author

Clarke, Lindsay

ISBN 10: 0224025376 / ISBN 13: 9780224025379

Edité par Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1989

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Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in 1989, here is the super first hardback printing of Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding flat signed by Lindsay in black ink to the full title page. 542 pages, black cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, the book and dust jacket are both in fine condition. The book is rather heavy and therefore additional postage MUST be applied to areas OUTSIDE the UK as follows: Europe £5, Rest of the World £5. UK postage is as quoted.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Chymical Wedding (superb 1st edition hardback in fine dust jacket) flat signed by the author
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224025376
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224025379
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

By the author of "Sunday Whiteman", this novel of intellectual obsession and passion concerns two groups of people who are united in their investigation into the "great experiment of nature" in a Norfolk village, but divided by a century of time.

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is the early 1980s. Alex Darken, devastated by a broken marriage, has retreated to a remote village in the bleak flatlands of eastern England. On the Easterness Estate he meets the volatile, aging poet Edward Nesbit and his vibrant, psychic, young American lover, Laura. Slowly, he is drawn into a strange relationship with them as they piece together the lost studies of two of the present lord's ancestors.
In 1849, Sir Henry Agnew and his elegant, brilliant daughter Louisa, were about to penetrate the last secrets of the mystical art of alchemy. They, like the researches a century and a half later, see in the "chemical wedding" of opposites -- sulphur and quicksilver, spirit and matter, male and female, reality and imagination -- a key to spiritual rebirth. As Edward, Laura, and Alex mirror the Agnew story, dreams and symbols, erotic ecstasy and philosophical argument, climax in a vision which, like those before them, they can grasp only as they skirt insanity and tragedy . . . .
"Engrossing . . . By the time we start wanting to resist, it is too late. The book already has drawn us too deeply into its six intriguing main characters and its rich gothic folds of plot." -- Chicago Tribune