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Title: The Great Lover

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Title: The Great Lover Title Record # 40357
Author: Dan Simmons
Date: 1993-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Synopsis: An anti-war WWI novella that exceeds even Kubrick's Paths of Glory in its depiction of the real-world horrors of war. Structured in the form of the "lost journals" of James Edwin Rooke - a fictional poet much celebrated in the years following the war, who built his career on collections of war-related poetry. While serving as a British officer in the trenches at the Battle of Somme, Rooke is occasionally visited by a strange apparition, usually presaging and interfering with some event which would have otherwise taken his life.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1994Translated by Jan Smit
Dutch De Grote Minnaar
1995Translated by Goran Skrobonja
Serbian Veliki ljubavnik [as by Den Simons]
1995Translated by Monique Lebailly.
French Le grand amant
1999Translated by Joachim Körber
German Der große Liebhaber

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Win (as Le grand amant) 1996 Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Lovedeath 1993-11-00 Dan Simmons Warner Books 0-446-51756-9
$19.95?$: US dollar
xxiv+
310
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Diane Luger Checkmark
Lovedeath: Five Tales of Love and Death 1993-11-00 Dan Simmons Headline 0-7472-7866-0
£8.99?£: UK pound
306
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Chris Moore  
Lovedeath: Five Tales of Love and Death 1993-11-00 Dan Simmons Headline 0-7472-0950-2
£15.99?£: UK pound
306
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Chris Moore Checkmark
Lovedeath 1994-05-00 Dan Simmons Headline 0-7472-4345-X
£5.99?£: UK pound
468
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Chris Moore  
Lovedeath 1994-11-00 Dan Simmons Warner Vision 0-446-60077-6
$5.99?$: US dollar
xxvii+
354
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll John Jude Palencar Checkmark
New Masterpieces of Horror 1996-00-00 ed. John Gregory Betancourt Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-790-2
$7.98?$: US dollar
xiv+
514
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Ziga Design Checkmark
Horrorscape 2: New Masterpieces of Horror 2005-08-09 ed. John Gregory Betancourt ibooks 1-4165-0412-5
$6.99?$: US dollar
 
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Lovedeath 2012-12-14 Dan Simmons Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-549-9
$6.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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