The Frontier
Maurice Leblanc · 1912
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Description
Maurice Leblanc's The Frontier, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and copyrighted in 1912, is a novel of tension on the Franco-German border. Leblanc was already famous for Arsene Lupin, but here he writes a serious drama of nations and families rather than a detective tale.
The story opens at the Butte-aux-Loups, where old Morestal shows his wife through a telescope that the German frontier post has been felled with an axe, the third such incident that year. His son Philippe, his wife, and two women are drawn into lies, enquiries, and an armed vigil. The novel builds toward a thunderclap in which private choices carry the weight of war.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maurice Leblanc |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1912 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 339 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |