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Dreamers of the day : a novel / Mary Doria Russell.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.U76678 D74 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935.
- Women teachers--Fiction.
- Women teachers.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935--Fiction.
- Lawrence, T. E.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Fiction.
- Churchill, Winston.
- Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926--Fiction.
- Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.
- Middle East--History--1914-1923--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2008]
- Summary:
- A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. While neither a pawn or a participant at the conference, she is drawn into the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the conference.
- ISBN:
- 9781400064717
- 1400064716
- OCLC:
- 144769917
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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