The Fencing Master
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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
Print Book, English, 2000
First Harvest edition View all formats and editions
Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 2000
Fictional Work
244 pages ; 21 cm
9780156006842, 9780156029834, 0156006847, 0156029839
45821834
I. The Fencing Bout
II. Compound Attack with Two Feints
III. Uncertain 'Time' on a False Attack
IV. The Short Lunge
V. Glissade
VI. An Attack on the Blade
VII. The Appel
VIII. With Bare Blades
Text in English