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Marquis de Sade Meets Goody Two-Shoes: A Few Crossed Paths & Treasured Moments
de Ronald Searle
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Collectible: Very Good/No dust jacket, as issued
- ISBN 10
- 1857934660
- ISBN 13
- 9781857934663
- Librería
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Smyrna, Georgia, United States
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Pavilion, 1994. Hardback. Collectible: Very Good/No dust jacket, as issued. 1st Edition / 1st Printing (Pavilion - 1994). VERY GOOD - no dust jacket as issued. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . The theme of this collection, that of crossing a few unlikely paths, first emerged a year or two back, while I was re-dipping into the murky life of Edgar Allan Poe and re-encountering, that same afternoon, some of the worst of E. Hemingway's macho prose. Suddenly I had this distressing vision of Hemingway blasting the brains out of Poe's quothing raven, so that nevermore would the gloomy bird go on about doom, fate and the shocking price of bird seed in New York. From then on it was only a short trot to other fanciful encounters. Donation Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade, for example. His sheer bad luck in crossing the path of the unspeakable Goody Two-Shoes, who was capable of crushing the spirit of men more monstrous and certainly less readable than he, was startling, to say the least of it. Is it not likely that one such numbing encounter - with or without skipping-rope - resulted in his incarceration and, finally, death in the lunatic asylum at Charenton? Such unlikely pairing opened up a world of nightmarish possibilities. Take old Omar Khayyam's brief encounter while he was lolling about with a loaf, a jug of wine and his girlfriend Thou, under a desert palm. If only he had enrolled in the Charles Atlas Biceps Course before T. E. Lawrence kicked sand in his face, the Rubaiyat might have been less soppy. Crossed paths, like crossed legs, can conceal an awful lot of surprises. Had impetuous Caesar, for example, listened more carefully, would he still have chopped de Gaulle into three parts? Well, maybe . . . From Searles Introduction
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- Librería
- Antique Mall Books, LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2310030013
- Título
- Marquis de Sade Meets Goody Two-Shoes: A Few Crossed Paths & Treasured Moments
- Autor
- Ronald Searle
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Collectible: Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No dust jacket, as issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1857934660
- ISBN 13
- 9781857934663
- Editorial
- Pavilion
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- X weight
- 0 oz
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Antique Mall Books, LLC
Miembro de Biblio desde 2023
Smyrna, Georgia
Sobre Antique Mall Books, LLC
We have been in the used book business for over 20 years. We started in 2002 in Georgia with an online business. A cornerstone of our business model over the years was to provide the best possible customer service and strive for 100% customer satisfaction. We received almost 7,000 customer feedbacks on our Amazon sales over the past 20 years, with a 99.7% positive rating.
In March of 2023, after 14 years in Steubenville, Ohio, we sold our brick-and-mortar bookstore and moved back to Georgia. We understand both the used and collectible book business along with customer service. We will be happy to provide you with a quality book if you find one of our offerings worthy of being added to your library. We will provide pictures if you do not see one in our listing. We strive to have detailed and accurate listings, and when we sell a book, we do our best to ship it within 24 hours.
In March of 2023, after 14 years in Steubenville, Ohio, we sold our brick-and-mortar bookstore and moved back to Georgia. We understand both the used and collectible book business along with customer service. We will be happy to provide you with a quality book if you find one of our offerings worthy of being added to your library. We will provide pictures if you do not see one in our listing. We strive to have detailed and accurate listings, and when we sell a book, we do our best to ship it within 24 hours.
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