Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania [Hardcover]

Sir Winston S. Churchill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1990

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Revolutions Fiction / Literary Fiction / Political History / Revolutionary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political Science / History

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: Leo Cooper, Octopus Publishing Group (February 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0850522552
• ISBN-13: 978-0850522556
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,585,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great insight into Churchill's political & social philosophy, August 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania (Hardcover)

Written when he was 23, Savrola was Churchill's only novel. It embodies his personal philosophy on life, which was to govern his later military and political career. For those who know of his later exploits, it provides an amazing foreshadowing of events in his own life. Though the plot is sometimes clumsy, there are flashes of poignancy in his prose that are deeply insightful for a man of his age.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review Savrola by Winston .S.Curchill, May 2, 2007

By 

Diane Sharrock (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania (Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill) (Library Binding)

The frailties and strengths of human nature, political in-fighting, battles, wars, forbidden love, philosophy and revolution. They are all here, vivdly portraded in this, Winston Churchill's only novel.

It is basically, a good story, well told and superbly written, in that confident direct and compelling manner, which all experienced readers will undoubtedly recognise as the hall-mark of a literary master.

A mastery which over a lifetime of some ninety plus years, produced forty-three book length works in seventy-two volumes, including the masterpieces "A History of the English Speaking Peoples" and " The Second World War". A massive achievement, which was finally recognised by the award of that supreme accolade, the Nobel Prize For Literature.

Written in 1897, "Savrola" first appeared in serial form in " Macmillan's Magazine" , and, first published, in book form, by Longmans Green, New York, in 1899, this early and unique Churchillian masterpiece has since appeared in various editions, including Hodder and Stoughton's SevenPenny Library, in the 1930's.

Although it is said to be much underrated, it does, without doubt, reveal much of Churchill's emerging political philosophy, and I found it totally absorbing.

I would heartily recommend it to all readers, especially enthusiasts of the Life and Times of Churchill and all serious students of politics and military history.

It is a riveting read I couldn't put it down!!!

Diane Sharrock May 2007