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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 15:37:43 GMT
 Hardcover First Edition 315 pages Published 1932 by Hodder and Stoughton Original Title The Gap in the Curtain Edition Language English Series Sir Edward Leithen #4 Characters Sir Edward Leithen (Above book Information courtesy of goodreads.) A brilliant physicist and mathematician (often rare), believes he can enable people to glimpse the future. This is the "gap in the curtain". In this case a page from the times newspaper a year hence. It deals with the consequences of five houseguests of Edward Leithen and what they have seen and how events play out. |
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 20, 2022 15:42:47 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 15:55:25 GMT
The blurb on the Handheld Press edition says:
The Gap in the Curtain tells the story of five country-house guests who are trained by the ailing Professor Moe, an Einsteinian mathematician who has devised a way of seeing into the future.
Einstein wasn't as great a mathematician as say his contemporary David Hilbert, who was amongst the greatest who ever lived, but he had intuitive genius, and all great men and women of science probably have it. He used other mathematicians to aid him in his work.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 16:02:50 GMT
Thank you Swampirella. This is the edition, or at least the coloured image, that seems to have been used for a lot of later covers by various publishers:  Published by Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, London, 1951 |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 16:07:29 GMT
 Paperback Published December 7th 2021 by Handheld Press (first published July 1932) Original Title The Gap in the Curtain Edition Language English Series Sir Edward Leithen #4 Characters Sir Edward Leithen (Above courtesy of goodreads) |
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