| The Aerodrome: A Love Story Contributor(s): Warner, Rex (Author), Burgess, Anthony (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1566630258 ISBN-13: 9781566630252 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher OUR PRICE: $16.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1993 Annotation: First published in 1941, The Aerodrome is one of the few works of fiction in the twentieth century to understand the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy - and to transmute their deadly opposition into terms of enduring art. Rex Warner brilliantly invents, on one side, a thoroughly degenerate Village representing fallen man, and on the other side a great Aerodrome dedicated to ruthless efficiency. The ideological struggle between the idealistic Air Vice-Marshal and the hero-narrator from the Village is portrayed with poetry, narrative speed, and great simplicity of language. It is a great symbolic novel of our time, as pertinent today as when it was written. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93011245 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.3" W x 8.08" (0.77 lbs) 316 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: One of the few works of fiction in the 20th century to explore the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy. |