The fencing master
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780151001811
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fencing coaches; Fiction
Work titles: Maestro de esgrima
Description: A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces their relationship. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: The Fencing Bout -- 5 -- II.; title: Compound Attack with Two Feints -- 31 -- III.; title: Uncertain 'Time' on a False Attack -- 57 -- IV.; title: The Short Lunge -- 81 -- V.; title: Glissade -- 128 -- VI.; title: An Attack on the Blade -- 156 -- VII.; title: The Appel -- 181 -- VIII.; title: With Bare Blades-- 207.