Plain or ringlets

Robert Smith Surtees; John Leech

Verlag: London : Printed for subscribers from the plates of the original ed. issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1860

Beschreibung

London : Printed for subscribers from the plates of the original ed. issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [18--?] (London : Whitefriars Press). [2], x, [4], 398 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Red cloth with 3/4 leather. 5 bands, gilt lettering and designs on spine. Marbled end pages. Binding in very good condition. Pages clean and unmarked. As a creator of comic personalities, Surtees is still very readable today. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him 'a master of life' and ranked him with Dickens. The novels are engaging and vigorous, and abound with sharp social observation, with a keener eye than Dickens for the natural world. Perhaps Surtees most resembles the Dickens of Pickwick Papers, which was originally intended as mere supporting matter for a series of sporting illustrations to rival Jorrock's. "Plain or Ringlets" is Surtees's marvelously British and eccentric satirical novel, with hunts and japes, scoundrels, gentry, uncertain maidens and country folk. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1201020120

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Plain or ringlets

Verlag: London : Printed for subscribers from the plates of the original ed. issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1860

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good