A Compass Error

by Bedford, Sybille

• ISBN13: 9781582431598
• ISBN10: 1582431590
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-30
• Publisher: Counterpoint
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Summary

In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence and ardor of youth. She knows her destiny-it lies at Oxford, where she will begin a great career of public service. But this view of herself is at odds with reality; it springs from ideas she has of her idolized English father and of her blessed Italian mother, Constanza. Only when she is caught up in an intrigue that is to determine the fate of those she most loves does she begins to discover her own true nature-even as she loses the bearings of her moral compass.

Author Biography

Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Prologues	11	(9)
A Day	20	(14)
A Week	34	(19)
A Night	53	(54)
Some Weeks	107	(17)
Friday Saturday Sunday	124	(19)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday	143	(26)
Thursday	169	(15)
Cornered	184	(34)
An Ending	218