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The Newcomes
de Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien/No Jacket
- Librería
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Dana Estes & Co. Illustrated Sterling Edition. No date, but WorldCat estimates 1912. Two volumes bound as one. With a total of 22 full-page illustrations. Top edge gilt. Light wear to the spine ends and corners. The binding is broken at the last page of text. In an otherwise square, tight binding. A very handsome copy except for the break in the binding.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 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
- Banjo Booksellers
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 012265
- Título
- The Newcomes
- Autor
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Editorial
- Dana Estes & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Worldcat
- Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
