The Orchid Trilogy  -  Jocelyn Brooke

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'He has an ear for talk; and eye for the beautiful and a sense of the comic. He writes simply and never shows off. Yet he is a subtle as the devil' - Sir John Betjeman

Partly through recollection, partly by fictional narrative, Jocelyn Brooke explores, in this autobiographical work, his two worlds-the one bound by his own experience and the other a magical and, as yet, unknown landscape which lies beyond the 'frontier'. A sensitive and intelligent child, Brooke perceived himself as an outcast from society, b...
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1950 Uitgever: Penguin 437 paginas Taal: Engels