The Elephant Who Crossed the Alps.The Elephant Who Crossed The Alps Marv Gold Privately Published 3901 Ashford Street, San Diego, CA 92111 193031308X $TBA TBA See: To be announced mortsy@aol.com The Elephant Who Crossed The Alps by Marv Gold is a chapbook chapbook, one of the pamphlets formerly sold in Europe and America by itinerant agents, or "chapmen." Chapbooks were inexpensive—in England often costing only a penny—and, like the broadside, they were usually anonymous and undated. novelette nov·el·ette n. A short novel. novelette Noun a short novel, usually one regarded as trivial or sentimental Noun 1. that tells the story of Hannibal, the greatest and most successful of the Carthaginian generals to oppose the Mediterranean hegemony of Rome in the spring of 1217 B.C. Leading some 90,000 troops and a small band of war elephants, Hannibal successfully invaded Italy by crossing into the Roman empire by way of the Pyrenees, Alps, and Apennines mountain ranges. Hannibal met and overcame several Roman armies leaving a wide swatch of destruction that included 250,000 dead Roman legionaries, thousands of destroyed horses and pack animals, dozens of razed raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. Roman cities, and brought the Roman Empire to the teetering edge of destruction. Novelist Marv Gold pays close attention to historic details as he tells the story of Hannibal through the eyes of his mistress Pilar Pilar strong-minded female leader of a group of guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War. [Am. Lit.: Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls] See : Female Power Pilar (a royal camp follower and trained assassin). This 43-page enthusiastically recommended novelette is replete with memorably colorful characters, plot twists, and dramatic battles. |
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