Rebecca West Novels: 1-2 "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: the record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937" by Rececca West - Macmillan, London - 1946 edition - complete in 2 volumes - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, in original bindings, mark on cover, name to ffep, all plates present. The writing of this two-volume work has occupied Miss West's time for five years. In 1936 Miss West went, under the auspices of the British Council, to lecture in Yugoslavia, and was immediately attracted by the beauty of the land, its brilliantly intelligent and profoundly poetic people, its complex and racial problems, and its dramatic history. She returned to Yugolsavia in the Spring of 1937 and for two months travelled through the country. In the diary she kept during this period, supplemented by notes made on a later and longer visit, she has based a work that is half a picturesque travel book, half a serious study of the tangled history of the South Slav peoples, and its relation to the destiny of Europe 3 "The Thinking Reed" by Rebecca West - Hutchinson, London - 1936 first UK edition - 15cmx13cm - condition: good, some rubbing to boards, some page foxing. a novel about the corrupting influence of wealth even on originally decent people. Perhaps a disguised self-critique of her own elegant lifestyle Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985). Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949,[1] and DBE in 1959;[2] in each case, the citation reads: "writer and literary critic". She took the pseudonym "Rebecca West" from the rebellious young heroine in Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal in 1966.