The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and Quartette. 1894
de Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osborne, Lloyd
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and darkened
- Librería
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Alnwick, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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Sinopsis
It is Tahiti in the 1890's and three men--an American sea captain, an English gentleman and a cockney thief--are 'on the beach'. Dispossessed and destitute, the 'trio' agree to sail a smallpox-infected ship loaded with champagne to Sydney, Australia, plotting to steal the cargo, scupper the vessel, and head for the 'Dangerous Archipelago'. Predictably, the thieves fall out. They lose their course and are driven towards an uncharted island which flies the red ensign. The owner of the island, also an English gentleman, has amassed a fortune in pearls. He is both a stern disciplinarian and a religious megalomaniac. As the protagonists in this 'quartette' begin to play out their parts, the plot moves to its dramatic, but ambiguous, conclusion. Stevenson's tale of exploitation in the South Seas recreates both the period and the place through a brilliant exploration of the moral corruption of colonisation.
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- Librería
- Barter Books Ltd (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- ste11
- Título
- The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and Quartette. 1894
- Autor
- Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osborne, Lloyd
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Decorated green cloth boards
- Estado del libro
- Usado - G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and darkened
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- William Heinemann
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1894
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, First Editions, 1850 - 1900 antiquarian
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