Philippine

[book is lightly shelfworn, very slight bump to top front corner, vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, minor scuffing to front panel]. A satirical romance "in the classic French tradition immortalized by Voltaire's Candide" (it sez here), in which a retired Parisian department store owner visits Italy with his daughter, to view "Authority in person" (Mussolini, that is) -- and "when pretty Philippine appears in Italy, Fascist hearts blaze with a new emotion." The author had been awarded the Prix Goncourt for his 1927 novel "Jerome or the Latitude of Love" ("Jrme 60 latitude nord").

Product Info

Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Year: (c.1932)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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