Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Good Books rating 4.15
Technical:
- ID: 32
- Added: 2025-08-10
- Updated: 2025-09-02
- ISBN: 9780099540861
- Publisher: Random House
- Published: 2010-01-01
- Reviews: 5
"Set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during World War II, this is the story of a beautiful young woman and her two suitors: a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerrilla, and the charming mandolin-playing head of the Italian garrison on the island."--Provided by publisher.
Reviews
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- "Captain Corelli’s Mandolin doesn’t just tell a fictional story of fictional people in a real village on a real Greek Island."
- "It offers quite the insight on what life must have been like."
- "Greece was always trying to stay out of the war of the Great Powers."
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- He proceeds to calmly make the case against their love: 1) The captain is a foreigner and an enemy.
- Infatuated love is transient, 6 months a year. After that it settles down to be hard work.
- If she did have a child and become a single mum no man would marry her and she would end up like most in that situation, becoming a prostitute.
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- Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a beautifully written novel, set on the Greek Island of Cephalonia.
- This story portrays a vivid picture of life during and after WWII.
- The emotional and historical layers are woven beautifully throughout the book.
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- The primary achievement of Captain Corelli's Mandolin is to show how the Axis occupation forced upon Europe a regime whose brutality it had...
- The novel intertwines personal stories with the harsh historical reality.
- It captures the emotional depth of love and loss during wartime.
Pull quotes
- "The core of this stretch of the film is the 'Massacre of the Acqui Division' by the Germans."
- "Corelli does represent the officers who decided to resist the Germans."
- "Women will like this movie much more than most men... It does have enough manly elements to keep it from being torture for male war movie lovers."