num_pages: 392
description: Rebecca West was a pseudonym for Cicily Isabel Fairfield, a woman who had love affairs with Charlie Chaplin, H.G. Wells, and businessman, politician and newspaper magnate Max Beaverbrook. She published her first novel, The Return of the Soldier, in 1918. Her works also include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Survivors in Mexico, The Thinking Reed, The Fountain Overflows and The Birds Fall Down. She may be best known for her studies of the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg: The Meaning of Treason (1947) and A Train of Powder (1955). In 1959 West was made a Dame of the British Empire.
language: English
title: The Judge
titlecomplete: The Judge
characters: Richard Yaverland, Ellen Melville
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Scotland, Novels, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 108
places: Edinburgh, Scotland
publisher: Aegypan