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Account Rendered: A novel

Name: Account Rendered: A novel
Author: BRITTAIN, Vera

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 334. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, pushing to heel of spine. Else, clean and tidy, especially given the poor post-war paper stock. In the original dust jacket with its apt melodramatic cover vignette (and double cleff-cum-noose spine design): ragged, losses to spines end, corners and bottom of front panel, numerous closed tears with amateur tape-repairs to reverse. Very good/ good-only. A robust copy of Brittain’s penultimate novel.

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A pacifist novel with a biographical (rather than autobiographical) foundation, in Testament of Experience, Brittain recalled its genesis: “In the autumn of 1939, I was summoned to a murder trial as a potential witness for the defense. The prisoner, a sensitive and intelligent professional man, had caused his wife’s death and then attempted suicide, but afterwards claimed that he could remember nothing of the tragedy. A team of psychological specialists traced back this amnesia to a bomb explosion in 1918, and my acquaintance was found “Guilty but Insane.”” The man was a Nottingham doctor, Leonard Lockhart, who gave Brittain permission to use his story, but later retracted it, requiring her to transform her protagonist into a musician and erase any traces of its origins. The novel was a bestseller in the UK, selling out its first print run of 50,000 copies ahead of publication (Poetry Foundation).

Author BRITTAIN, Vera

Date 1945

Publisher London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd

Condition Very good/ good-only

Price: £35.00

Offered by Quair Books

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