by Louis de Bernieres · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582461352
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«Captain Corelli's Mandolin» is the historical novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (112 pages, in English).
In 1941, the Italian captain Antonio Corelli arrives on the Greek island of Cephalonia with the occupying troops. He prefers a quiet war and soon wins over the islanders, especially Pelagia, the doctor's daughter, whose fiancé is fighting far away. The story combines love, loyalty and loss during the Second World War.
«Captain Corelli's Mandolin» was originally published in 1994; the Penguin Readers edition, in 2001. The Penguin Readers (Graded Readers) series offers graded readers in English.
This book is suitable for students of English as a foreign language who wish to practise reading.
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
