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FBP9: V1.1 (lit) Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Probably one of the best books I've read recently. Beautifully written, the scenes

with the Mine and the Snails are some of the most humorous and lyrically

romantic I've ever come across, and those of the war as cynically practical about

the real atrocities of war as anything I've read. Both are more powerful for their

proximity to each other. The only thing I don't like is the ending, which is just

soppy! It was nice to proof in UK English for a change (and quite a lot of

Greek!)...Enjoy...AFB

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It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the

Greek Island of Cephallonia of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by

the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is

to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a

consummate musician.

When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiancé - and members of the

underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems

inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets

closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?

Introduction

`Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings

with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history ...

it's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest' OBSERVER

`Louis de Berniers is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn

Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality,

colours and touch and taste' A.S. BYATT - EVENING STANDARD

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`Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope

and tremendous iridescent charm - and you can quote me' JOSEPH HELLER

`A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy DAILY MAIL

About the Author

Louis de Berniers' first three novels are The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether

Parts (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1 991),

Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia

Region, 199?) and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The author,

who lives in London, was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British

Novelists in 1993. Captain Corelli's Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writers

Prize, Best Book, 1995.

ALSO BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN Louis de Berniers

To my mother and father, who in different places and in different ways fought

against the Fascists and the Nazis, lost many of their closest friends, and were

never thanked.

A Minerva Paperback CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN 40 39 38 37 36 35

First published in Great Britain 1994 by Martin Secker & Warburg This Minerva

edition published 1995 Random House UK Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road,

London SW1V 2SA Random House Australia (Pty) Limited 20 Alfred Street,

Milsons Point, Sydney, New South Wales 2061, Australia Random House New

Zealand Limited 18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland 10, New Zealand Random

House South Africa (Pty) Limited Endulini, 5a jubilee Road, Parktown 2193,

South Africa Random House UK Limited Reg. No. 954009 Reprinted 1995 (nine

The author has asserted his moral rights A CIP catalogue record for this title is

available from the British Library ISBN 0 7493 9754 3 Printed and bound in Great

Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire This book is sold subject to the

condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out,

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or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of

binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar

condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Contents

1 Dr Iannis commences his History and is frustrated

2 The Duce

3 The Strongman

4 L'Omosessuale (1)

5 The Man who Said `No'

6 L'Omosessuale (2)

7 Extreme Remedies

8 A Funny Kind of Cat

9 August 1 5th, 1940

10 L'Omosessuale (3)

11 Pelagia and Mandras

12 All the Saint's Miracles

13, Delirium

14 Grazzi

15 L'Omosessuale (4)

16 Letters to Mandras at the Front

17 L'Omosessuale IS)

18 The Continuing Literary Travails of Dr Iannis

19 L'Omosessuale (6)

20 The Wild Man of the Ice

21 Pelagia's First Patient

22 Mandras Behind the Veil

23 April 30th, 1941

24 A Most Ungracious Surrender

25 Resistance

26 Sharp Edges

27 A Discourse on Mandolins and a Concert

28 Liberating the Masses (1)

29 Etiquette

30 The Good Nazi I1)

31 A Problem wide Eyes

32 Liberating the Masses (2)

33 A Problem with Hands

34 Liberating the Masses 13)

35 A Pamphlet Distributed on the Island, Entitled with the Fascist Slogan

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`Believe, Fight, and Obey'

36 Education

37 An Episode Confirming Pelagia's Belief that Men do not Know the Difference

Between Bravery and a Lack of Common Sense

38 The Origin of Pelagia's March

39 Arsenios

40 A Problem with Lips

41 Snails

42 How like a Woman is a Mandolin

43 The Great Big Spiky Rustball

44 Theft

45 A Time of Innocence

46 Bunnios

47 Dr Iannis Counsels his Daughter

48 La Scala

49 The Doctor Advises the Captain

5O A Time of Hiatus

51 Paralysis

52 Developments

53 First Blood

54 Carlo's Farewell

55 Victory

56 The Good Nazi (2)

57 Fin

58 Surgery and Obsequy

59 The Historical Cachette

60 The Beginning of her Sorrows

61 Every Parting u a Foretaste of Death

62 Of the German Occupation

63 Liberation

64 Antonia

65 1953

66 Rescue

67 Pelagia's Latent

68 The Resurrection of the History

69 Bean by Bean the Sack Fills

70 Excavation

71 Antonia Sings Again

72 An Unexpected Lesson

73 Restitution

Acknowledgement: The Soldier.

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Down some cold field in a world unspoken the young men are walking together,

slim and tall, and though they laugh to one another, silence is not broken; there is

no sound however clear they call.

They are speaking together of what they loved in vain here, but the air is too

thin to carry the thing they say. They were young and golden, but they came on

pain here, and their youth is age now, their gold is grey.

Yet their hearts are not changed, and they cry to one anther, `What have they

done with the lives we laid aside? Are they young with our youth, gold with our

gold, nay brother? Do they smile in the face of death, because we died?'

Down some cold field in a world uncharted the young seek each other with

questioning eyes. They question each other, the young, the golden-hearted of the

world that they were robbed of in their quiet paradise.

HUMBERT WOLFS

1 Dr Iannis Commences his History and is Frustrated

Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died

or got any worse. He had attended a surprisingly easy calving, lanced one

abscess, extracted a molar, dosed one lady of easy virtue with Salvarsan,

performed an unpleasant but spectacularly fruitful enema, and had produced a

miracle by a feat of medical prestidigitation.

He chuckled to himself, for no doubt this miracle was already being touted as

worthy of St Gerasimos himself. He had gone to old man Stamatis' house, having

been summoned to deal with an earache, and had found himself gazing down

into an aural orifice more dank, be-lichened, and stalagmitic even than the

Drogarati cave. He had set about cleaning the lichen away with the aid of a little

cotton, soaked in alcohol, and wrapped about the end of a long matchstick. He

was aware that old man Stamatis had been deaf in that ear since childhood, and

that it had been a constant source of pain, but was nonetheless surprised when,

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