Shirley : a tale. / With an introd. by Phyllis Bentley
1953, Later Edition. London, Glasgow : Collins. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #419720
Physical description; 510 pp., 19 cm. Contents; Levitical -- The Waggons -- Mr. Yorke -- Mr. Yorke (continued) -- Hollow's cottage -- Coriolanus -- The curates at tea -- Noah and Moses -- Briarmains -- Old maids -- Fieldhead -- Shirley and Caroline -- Further communications in business -- Shriley seeks to be saved by works -- Mr. Donne's exodus -- Whitsuntide -- The school-feast -- Which the genteel readers is recommended to skip, low persons being here introduced -- A summer night -- To-morrow -- Mrs. Pryor -- Two lives -- an evening out -- The valley of the shadow of death -- The west wind blows -- Old copy-books -- The first blue-stocking -- Phoebe -- Louise Moore -- Rushedge, a confessional -- Uncle and niece -- The schoolboy and the wood-nymph -- Martin's tactics -- Case of domestic persecution -- Wherein matters make some progress, but not much -- Written in the schoolroom -- The winding-up. Subjects; Labor ; Fiction. Great Britain.
Price: €25.00