 First edition cover | |
| Author | Gerald Basil Edwards |
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| Cover artist | Paul Leith |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Publication date | 16 March 1981 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 488 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-241-10477-7 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 7680723 |
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a novel by Guernsey born writer Gerald Basil Edwards first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in 1981, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in the same year. It has since been published by Penguin books and New York Review Books in their classics series, as well as in French and Italian.
It is the fictionalised autobiography of an archetypal Guernseyman, Ebenezer Le Page, who lives through the dramatic changes in the island of the Guernsey, Channel Islands from the late nineteenth century, through to the 1960s.