- EAN13
- 9788728375280
- Éditeur
- SAGA Egmont
- Date de publication
- 23/02/2023
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
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Aide EAN13 : 9788728375280
- Fichier EPUB, avec Marquage en filigrane
1.99
‘The Winds of Chance’ by Rex Beach is an adventure novel which tells a
fictionalised story of the Gold Rush. Adapted into a silent film of the same
name in 1925, the story follows the penniless Pierce Phillips who cannot go
seeking gold so instead works packing supplies for the other adventurers.
Phillips soon falls in love with Countess Courteau but when he proposes to her
he discovers that she already has a husband. Pierce Phillips then joins a
travelling show where one member, Laure, falls in love with him. When Phillips
pays more attention to Rouletta, a daughter of a gambler, Laure becomes
jealous and conspires with Count Courteau, who believes that Phillips is his
wife’s lover. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush, this novel will be
enjoyed by fans of ‘Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure’, and ‘The
Klondike Gold Rush’. Rex Beach, was an American novelist, playwright, and
Olympic water polo player. His novels, most of which were adventure novels,
were influenced by Jack London – author of ‘White Fang’ – and they were very
popular during the early 1900s. His second novel, ‘The Spoilers’ which was
based on a true experience he witnessed while in Alaska of corrupt government
officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, became one of the best-selling
novels of 1906.
fictionalised story of the Gold Rush. Adapted into a silent film of the same
name in 1925, the story follows the penniless Pierce Phillips who cannot go
seeking gold so instead works packing supplies for the other adventurers.
Phillips soon falls in love with Countess Courteau but when he proposes to her
he discovers that she already has a husband. Pierce Phillips then joins a
travelling show where one member, Laure, falls in love with him. When Phillips
pays more attention to Rouletta, a daughter of a gambler, Laure becomes
jealous and conspires with Count Courteau, who believes that Phillips is his
wife’s lover. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush, this novel will be
enjoyed by fans of ‘Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure’, and ‘The
Klondike Gold Rush’. Rex Beach, was an American novelist, playwright, and
Olympic water polo player. His novels, most of which were adventure novels,
were influenced by Jack London – author of ‘White Fang’ – and they were very
popular during the early 1900s. His second novel, ‘The Spoilers’ which was
based on a true experience he witnessed while in Alaska of corrupt government
officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, became one of the best-selling
novels of 1906.
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