Golon [Changeux], Anne [Simone]
Golon [Goloubinoff], Serge [Vsevolod Sergeevich]
Bakiev, A., translator.
Anzhelika i Demon. Roman., Zaporizhzhia, Izdatel´stvo 'Rossiiskaia kul´tura' AO 'Dainemik' 1994., 544, ill €27,50
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Binding, endpapers and vignettes designed by S. K. Semendiaev.

Unusual and very rare provincial edition of the last novel in Angélique series, cult series of nine novels. The series is popular with three generations (sic!) of Russian readers (from 1973), mostly women.

Golons books were printed in millions of copies all over the USSR and Russia, each book selling within a very short time after publication. In some cases Golons´ books were exchanged in 1970s and 1980s, within the frames of famous 'Books for Pulp Project', for valuable family and stolen archival documents, XVI-XVIII century manuscripts and even unique foreign books stolen or withdrawn from 'Rare Book Rooms' of major academic libraries.

Most of public library copies were read into pieces within few months after book´s purchase or were stolen by inventive Soviet readers.

This edition was typset in Kyiv in May 1992, signed for printing in November 1992 and printed specially for short-lived publishing house 'Rossiiskaia kul´tura' AO 'Dainemik' in 1994. Mysterious publishing house broke still existing laws and did not show in colophon the number of copies printed. The Ukrainian was not used in colophon either, also breaking laws of the independent Ukraine when output data in each book had to be printed in both, Russian and Ukrainian.

'Librarians might have difficulty deciding whether the story should be filed under historical, romantic or pure adventure. [...]

The real life adventures of Anne and Serge Golon are almost as exciting as those of their heroine - and could make a bestselling story in their own right. And they have all the same elements that made Angélique's story such a hit with readers worldwide, and especially in the USSR.
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That two such remarkable people should be attracted to each other is not surprising, but the fact that they found each other is. The paths of the attractive Frenchwoman and the charming man who was born in Persia would finally cross in Africa, but both had already tasted adventure long before they met.

Anne was born in December 1921 in the southern France port of Toulon, where her father, a captain in the French navy, was posted. She was christened Simone Changeux but the world would come to know her as Anne - actually the last and most famous of several pen names she has used during her career.

In fact, Golon is, itself, only a pseudonym. Serge Golon's real name is Vsevolod Sergeivitch Goloubinoff, which he had shortened to Golon because it read better. Anne was born Simone Changeux and adopted various pen names over the years before settling on her now world-famous identity.Just to make things even more complicated, family and close friends call her Joelle (as did Serge) from a previous pen name.

For convenience, this website only ever refers to her as Anne Golon. In fact, Golon is, itself, only a pseudonym. Serge Golon's real name is Vsevolod Sergeivitch Goloubinoff, which he had shortened to Golon because it read better. Anne was born Simone Changeux and adopted various pen names over the years before settling on her now world-famous identity.Just to make things even more complicated, family and close friends call her Joelle (as did Serge) from a previous pen name.'

See: www.worldofangelique.com; http://angeliquemarquise.forum24.ru