![]() Dust jacket has light to moderate browning, areas of light to moderate edge wrinkling, light edge wear. ![]() Pierre Andrezel was in fact Karen Blixen (Isaak Dinesen) of 'Out of Africa' fame. ![]() The setting of (this book) is England and France 1840-41, when a romantic school of fiction still carried on something of the flamboyance and mystery of the Gothic Revival." - from the dust jacket flap. Pierre Andrezel has not been heard of since the appearance of his novel in Denmark. ![]() The use of this phrase in the book can hardly fail to be an allusion, and may have a certain significance, although it would be an error to regard the book as in any serious way allegorical. His original publication of 'The Angelic Avengers' in Copenhagen in 1944 may be explained by the state of France at that time, and the less oppressive conditions of the Danes, whom the British Prime Minister dubbed 'the Gangster's Canary Birds'. First published in English in 1946, this introspective novel by Pierre Andrzel (aka Karen Blixen) is set in England and France during the 1840s and tells the story of two young, innocent girls. ![]() "Pierre Andrezel, whose name appears on this novel, is described as a young Frenchman, born in Rouen 1915, and educated at Oxford where he wrote stories for English magazines. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. ![]()
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