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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
de William Makepeace Thackeray (Ed. Arthur Rendennis)
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Two Volumes on One. In black cloth covers with stamped linear borders on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Over 100 illustrations. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Chipping of ends of spine. Three corners are through. Moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action moves from London to Brighton, from England to France, from the political ambitions of an older generation in the industrial North to the painterly pretensions of a younger generation in Italy. At its centre is Thomas Newcome, a retired Colonel in the Indian Army who finds the snobberies and hypocrisies of early Victorian England disconcerting. In a world of men on the make, of social mobility, and of the buying and selling of women in an aristocratic marriage market, it is the Colonel's distinctive but old-fashioned gentlemanliness that stands out from a self-seeking society. The most observant and witty among Thackeray's studies of his culture, The Newcomes is also among his most complex and allusive novels, and this edition provides particularly detailed notes which clarify his many references.
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- Librería
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004470
- Título
- The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
- Autor
- William Makepeace Thackeray (Ed. Arthur Rendennis)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Editorial
- Harper & Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1859
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Drama
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction, Drama;
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