A Legacy
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Legacy
By (Author) Sybille Bedford
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
30th June 2005
2nd June 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 20mm
281g
Description
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural Baden. Portrayed with exquisite wit and acute observation, their personal upheavals and tragedies are set against the menacing backdrop of a newly unified Germany combined with Prussian militarism in the decades before the First World War.
Author Bio
Born in Charlottenburg and educated privately in England, Italy and France, Sybille Bedford is also the author of A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS, JIGSAW and A COMPASS ERROR. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of PEN. She was awarded the OBE in 1981 and a C.Lit in 1994.
