Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Name: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Rebecca West
ISBN: 9781101035191

by Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens

3.8

(5 ratings)

1181 pages1941Penguin USA, Inc.ISBN 9781101035191

TravelHistoryEastern question (Balkan)ClassicsWarLiterature NonfictionTravelHistory

About this book

“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensions that rule the country’s history as well as its daily life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 1941
Pages: 1181
ISBN: 9781101035191

About Rebecca West

Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for *The Times,* the *New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph* and *The New Republic,* and she was a correspondent for *The Bookman.* Her major works include *Black Lamb and Grey Falcon* (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; *A Train of Powder* (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in *The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason* (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later *The New Meaning of Treason* (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; *The Return of the Soldier* (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, *The Fountain Overflows* (1956), *This Real Night* (published posthumously in 1984), and *Cousin Rosamund* (1985).