The Taverner Novels
$28.95| ISBN-13: | 9780929701189 | Format: | Paperback |
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| Subject: | Fiction | Publisher: | McPherson & Company |
| Published: | January 1st 1992 | Series Title: | Recovered Classics |
| Pages: | 310 |
Book Description
These two novels, Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Tavernerout of print since originally published in 1928 and 1932form what is almost certainly her masterpiece, a mythic yet contemporary tale of struggle against spiritual alienation. On the remote southwestern coast along the English Channel, a group of young bohemians have gathered, in retreat from the psychological cataclysm of World War and in search of a moral value on which to base their lives. Armed with Madness begins by invoking an ancient enchantment, a numinous vision of coincident reality, where love can also lead to insanity. Scylla Taverner, her brother Felix, her soon-to-be lover Picus, and their closely knit circle of English, Russian and American friends, retrieve an ancient chalice, which may be the Sanc-Grail. Together they enter upon a psychological and sexual exploration fraught with exhilarating possibility and violent consequence.