Airaq Al-Amir: The Architecture of the Tobiads

by Mary Morrissy

Book Overview

'a wonderful book from one of our finest writers' Colum McCann Bella is a bright, clever girl who trains as a school teacher, determined to escape the limitations of her genteel impoverishment and become a "mistress of her own life". However, the manager of her school, the Rev Archibald Leeper, a married clergyman, develops a morbid attachment to her, which is to colour the rest of her life. Leeper places Bella in an untenable position; her only escape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847175767
• ISBN13: 9781847175762
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.7"