The Dividing Stream

The Dividing Stream - Paperback

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The Dividing Stream - Paperback

The Dividing Stream - Paperback

by Francis King
$37.60
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"An achievement by a writer completely master of his technique, and I strongly recommend it." - C. P. Snow, Sunday Times

"Voluptuously readable . . . an impressive piece of work." - New Statesman

"[R]are, and indeed astonishing . . . exercise[s] a continuous fascination." - Lionel Hale, The Observer

"Mr. King has something to say in this novel, and he knows how to say it." - John Betjeman, Daily Telegraph

In Florence on business, Max Westfield has brought his wife and children with him to make a holiday of it. But while shrewdly perceptive in financial matters, Max is completely blind to the passions and tragedies that soon begin to surround him. His wife despises him and is brazenly having an affair with a cynical expatriate, his secretary wants to be his mistress and dreams of accompanying him back to England, and his teenage son has fallen in love with a working-class Italian youth. With what Paul Binding calls his "darkly penetrative vision of existence," Francis King weaves these narrative threads into a complex and gripping story of isolation, despair, and death beneath the intense glare of the Tuscan sun.

Francis King (1923-2011) received favourable reviews for his first three novels, but it was his fourth, The Dividing Stream (1951), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, that secured his international reputation as one of the foremost young writers of his generation. This edition, the first in more than 60 years, includes a new introduction by novelist and critic Paul Binding and a reproduction of the original dust jacket art by Leslie Wood.
ISBN9781939140692
Author Francis King
PublisherValancourt Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages306
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Dr Stephen Skinner authored "Techniques of High Magic" with Francis King in 1976, but it is still remarkably relevant today. He has produced a number of other books on practical magic since including: "Geomancy in Theory and Practice", which is still the most complete work in English on the history and practice of Western divinatory geomancy. Highly illustrated coffee-table books on "Millennium Prophecies: Apocalypse 2000" and "Nostradamus" (also with Francis King) were followed by "Sacred Geometry." From 2004 - 2010 he collaborated with David Rankine to produce the first six volumes of the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series including fresh translations of a number of grimoires: "The Key of Solomon", the "Lemegeton", "Goetia", "Ars Almadel", "Theurgia-Goetia," Ars Paulina", "Janua Reserata", and "Sefer Raziel".He produced a substantial reference book: the "Complete Magician's Tables" which is a tabular summary of the correspondences that are important to the theory and practice of magic; their Kabbalistic framework; the attendant angels and demons from many grimoires; the gods of many cultures; the constituents of astrology (Greek, Babylonian and Egyptian); gem stones, plants, perfumes and incenses of practical magic; the gematria and isopsephy of many Greek and Hebrew words, and correspondences with Eastern belief systems like the Yi Jing, a total of over 840 comparative tables. Stephen summarized the practical magic techniques to be found in the grimoires in his "Techniques of Solomonic Magic" in 2015, and went back to the main roots of all western magic, the Greek magical papyri published in "Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic" in 2014. He has also written a number of books on Feng Shui, including a substantial reference book to the subject: the "Guide to the Feng Shui Compass," the fruit of years of research into Chinese sources in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Stephen has written more than 46 books, translated into more than twenty different languages. He was awarded a PhD in Classics by the University of Newcastle for his research on the Greek text of the PGM and a number of Latin grimoires. Stephen lives in Singapore. His website is www.SSkinner.com His Wikipedia entry is https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Skinner_(author)

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