ISBN: 9780006512172 - the way of gentleness: the story of a princess (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Way of Gentleness: The Story of a Princess This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 272 pages. Cover wornA Princess Dies. A Nation Mourns. A Princess lives again.One humid night towa rds the end of August, a princess, the most famous woman in the world let us cal l her Helena dies with her lover in a car crash in a Parisian underpass. At almo st the same moment, a second aristocratic Englishwoman though one in very differ ent material circumstances is killed not far away by speeding motorcyclists. In another country (on what appears to be a Greek island) these events are observed and their significance recognized.Elizabeth Vickers novel explores, in a highly intelligent, imaginative and sympathetic way, the lives of those involved in th at terrible accident, the intelligence of the heart possessed by the woman at th eir centre and the place she took, and now takes, in the worlds imagination. It suggests that her life may have had a significance more profound than it appeare d, and that even from tragic events can come good and valuable consequences.The Way of Gentleness is partly based on real events, part novel, part fable. Why wa s the world so moved, so traumatized, by the death of that Princess The Way of G entleness, beautifully written, psychologically convincing and, to the end,extra ordinarily moving, attempts with tact and affection to say why.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 258 pages. Cover wornA Princess Dies. A Nation Mourns. A Princess lives again. One humid night tow ards the end of August, a princess, the most famous woman in the world -- let us call her Helena -- dies with her lover in a car crash in a Parisian underpass. At almost the same moment, a second aristocratic Englishwoman -- though one in v ery different material circumstances -- is killed not far away by speeding motor cyclists. In 'another country' (on what appears to be a Greek island) these even ts are observed and their significance recognized. Elizabeth Vickers' novel expl ores, in a highly intelligent, imaginative and sympathetic way, the lives of tho se involved in that terrible accident, the intelligence of the heart possessed b y the woman at their centre and the place she took, and now takes, in the world' s imagination. It suggests that her life may have had a significance more profou nd than it appeared, and that even from tragic events can come good and valuable consequences. The Way of Gentleness is partly based on real events, part novel, part fable. Why was the world so moved, so traumatized, by the death of that Pr incess?;The Way of Gentleness, beautifully written, psychologically convincing a nd, to the end, extraordinarily moving, attempts with tact and affection to say why.…