7s. 6d. net.
A most vivid account of the adventures of a French lady married to a Chinese gentleman of great family.
The author, one of the best known sinologists of France, presents in an extremely original manner the dramatic, sentimental, and often comical episodes of such marriages, which he has witnessed several times during his long career in China.
The Novels of Eric Leadbitter
Rain before Seven
Cr. 8vo, 6s. 6d. net. (Second Impression.)
“There are few novels written nowadays with more of the qualities that mark the serious and ‘worth while’ order of fiction. It is a really remarkable first novel.”—Observer.
“Has an amazing reality about it ... coming near to inspiration at times; it is extraordinarily sincere from the first page to the last.”—Evening Standard.
“Mr. Leadbitter enters the literary arena with an equipment rare in a novice.”—Spectator.