The Wall: A Novel

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Owen, 1990 - Fiction - 232 pages
The Wall concerns the fortunes of a Roman family in the third century. Rome is brilliantly revealed by Peter Vansittart as strange, yet familiar, with issues like unemployment, inflation, pollution, and political corruption occupying the lives of its characters.

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Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
9
Section 3
15
Copyright

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About the author (1990)

Historical fiction author Peter Vansittart was born in Bedford, England. He attended Winchester College and Worcester College. He was the director of the Burgess Hill school in Hampstead, London from 1947 to 1959. His first novel, I Am the World, was published in 1942. He wrote and edited more than 50 books in his lifetime including The Death of Robin Hood; The Game and the Ground; Green Kights, Black Angels; Voices from the Great War; and Survival Tactics. He died on October 4, 2008 at the age of 88.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Wall: A Novel
AuthorPeter Vansittart
PublisherOwen, 1990
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Dec 2006
ISBN0720607841, 9780720607840
Length232 pages
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Fiction / Action & Adventure
Fiction / General
Fiction / Political
  
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