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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Published both in the United Kingdom and the US., the book presents an exhaustive history of the land and people of the Balkans. Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca Wests Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in. 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.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Dame Rebecca West is ostensively a travelogue, published as a two-volume set of more than 1,100 pages and half a million words in 1941.
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. Third Printing, June 1942, published same year as first (February). 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.
one of the great books of our time.” -The New Yorker
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