The fencing master / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Maestro de esgrima. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

1. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.

Summary:

A seductive, intricate, historical mystery by the author of the internationally bestselling The Club Dumas and The Seville Communion

Everyone in Madrid in the torrid fall of 1868 is discussing political plots and revolution except for Don Jaime. He is a fencing master and man of honor, an anachronism. For years he has been working on a Treatise on the Art of Fencing, the heart of which is his perfection of the unstoppable thrust.

He is approached one day by a beautiful and mysterious woman with a scar at the corner of her mouth that hints at dark violence. She asks the maestro to teach her the unstoppable thrust. Even though Dona Adela de Otero's weapons of charm and elegance are formidable, Don Jaime declines. But he is entirely unprepared for the unhurried, sure, and inexplicable movements that follow. Soon he finds himself involved in a plot that includes seduction, politics, secret documents, and murder.

Rich with the historical detail of a decaying world that agonizes--as does the art of fencing--over ideals of honor and chivalry, The Fencing Master is superb literature and an honest-to-goodness page-turner.

Contents:

I. The Fencing Bout 5

II. Compound Attack with Two Feints 31

III. Uncertain 'Time' on a False Attack 57

IV. The Short Lunge 81

V. Glissade 128

VI. An Attack on the Blade 156

VII. The Appel 181

VIII. With Bare Blades 207.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151001812

OCLC:

39443732