The spider's house / Paul Bowles ; with a new preface by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow, 1982.

Summary:

"The Spider's House" (originally published in 1955) is a remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, in the mid-50s during the last days of the French colonial empire. "I wanted to write a novel using as backdrop the traditional daily life of Fez, because it was a medieval city functioning in the twentieth century. . . . I soon saw that I was going to have to write, not about the traditional pattern of life in Fez, but about its dissolution. For more than two decades I had been waiting to see the end of French rule in Morocco. . . . What I failed to understand was that if Morocco was still a largely medieval land, it was because the French themselves, and not the Moroccans, wanted it that way" (from the author's 1981 Preface).

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, 1955.

"This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 1000 cloth trade copies; 350 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 26 lettered copies have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray & are signed by the author"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is hardcover edition.

ISBN:

087685546X

OCLC:

8283660