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The romantic : the real life of Cashel Greville Ross : a novel
- Title
- The romantic : the real life of Cashel Greville Ross : a novel / William Boyd.
- Author
- Boyd, William, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- xi, 451 pages : illustration; 25 cm
- Summary
- "From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives ... Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, embedded with the East Indian Army in Sri Lanka, sunning himself alongside the Romantic poets in Pisa. He travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, even a father. And he experiences all the vicissitudes of existence, including a once-in-a-lifetime love that will haunt the rest of his days. In the end, his great accomplishment is to discover who he truly is-which is the romance of life itself, and the beating heart of The Romantic"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Farmers > Fiction
- Soldiers > Fiction
- Authors > Fiction
- Fathers > Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Voyages and travels > Fiction
- Ethical problems > Fiction
- Family members
- Fathers
- Soldiers
- Authors
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Man-woman relationships
- Voyages and travels
- Ethical problems
- Manners and customs
- Farmers
- Zanzibar > Fiction
- Sri Lanka > Fiction
- Trieste (Italy) > Fiction
- Ravenna (Italy) > Fiction
- Pisa (Italy) > Fiction
- Europe > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
- Sri Lanka
- Italy > Trieste
- Italy > Trieste (Free Territory)
- Italy > Ravenna
- Italy > Pisa
- Europe
- Tanzania > Zanzibar
- Tanzania
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Picaresque fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022."
- Call Number
- JFE 23-2796
- ISBN
- 9780593536797
- 0593536797
- LCCN
- 2022048333
- OCLC
- 1363104096
- Author
- Boyd, William, 1952- author.
- Title
- The romantic : the real life of Cashel Greville Ross : a novel / William Boyd.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Boyd, William, 1952- Romantic. First United States edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 9780593536803 (DLC) 2022048334
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-2796