Breathless Diversions

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973 This hilariously entertaining, wonderfully sexy novel of British seapower from the 1880's to the First World War is Horatio Hornblower handled with outrageous camp, terrific pace and drive. The naval scenes are superb, and Anatolia is a matchless heroine who has been schooled first by her protector in the arts of love and the revolutionary concepts of Karl Marx, and self-schooled in female emancipation. Having left the Khedive's harem and her Turkish lover to settle in London (escorted by the fleet that had bombarded Alexandria) she charts the course by which her yet unborn son will himself become an admiral of the Queen's Navy. The lavender and denim binding is fine. The jacket is dented at the spine top. The price is not clipped but has an ink line through it with a note in ink on the inside back flap. 247 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.