Wide is the Gate
by Upton Sinclair
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1945. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Seventh Printing. A second world novel in the Larry Budd Series. 751 Pages. Buff cloth cover with red lettering and Viking Ship motif to front. Some soiling and slight wear (see photo). Reference numbers are written on front free endpaper. Some cellotape marks to front and rear endpaper. "Book# 1934-1938 is written on title page. 2 paragraphs are indicated in biro on page 122. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Synopsis
Wide Is the Gate is the fourth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1943, the story covers the period from 1934 to 1937. In this novel Lanny Budd's marriage to Irma breaks down after he imposes on her to help smuggle a revolutionary named Trudy out of Germany. Her husband Rudy had been arrested and vanished into the Gestapo prison system. Months later Lanny, at a séance, hears that Rudy is dead. He persuades Trudy that Rudy is dead and they secretly marry.
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001335
- Title
- Wide is the Gate
- Author
- Upton Sinclair
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- FICTION/MILITARY/LARRY BUDD/
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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