Marion Alive
- London: Michael Joseph, 1943
London: Michael Joseph, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. London: Michael Joseph, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (19.8cm); illustrated dust jacket with 10/6 net price intact; boards in publisher's red cloth with silver lettering; 452pp. Jacket shows a clean tear along top front joint, with lighter tears and chips at folds and fairly heavy foxing, likely common given the war economy stock. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with another bump at fore-edge and a brief impression at top front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
A contemporary New York Times review notes the scope of the novel: "'Marion Alive' covers two World Wars, the decay of Vienna's bourgeoisie, and the ominous period of inflation, unemployment and poverty during Germany's democratic intermezzo; Nazi brutality and Nazi stupidity after 1933, Communism in Russia, prohibition in New York and mental corruption in Heidelberg. In short, the whole hectic drama of our century has been crammed into 'Marion Alive,' beginning with Marion's childhood in a decadent Viennese home, and ending, politically speaking, with the fall of France.
A contemporary New York Times review notes the scope of the novel: "'Marion Alive' covers two World Wars, the decay of Vienna's bourgeoisie, and the ominous period of inflation, unemployment and poverty during Germany's democratic intermezzo; Nazi brutality and Nazi stupidity after 1933, Communism in Russia, prohibition in New York and mental corruption in Heidelberg. In short, the whole hectic drama of our century has been crammed into 'Marion Alive,' beginning with Marion's childhood in a decadent Viennese home, and ending, politically speaking, with the fall of France.