Louis de Bernieres is one of the best writers in English today.
This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelagia's fiance is fighting the Italian army…
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicholas Cage.
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Chapter 1 August 1940: The Doctor and his Daughter
Chapter 2 Pelagia and Mandras
Chapter 3 The Homosexual
Chapter 4 The Wild Man
Chapter 5 30 April 1941: Invasion
Chapter 6 The Freedom Fighter
Chapter 7 A Problem with Eyes
Chapter 8 Snails
Chapter 9 Autumn 1943: Betrayal
Chapter 10 The Order to Kill
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