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The Street Philosopher - Hardcover

Plampin, Matthew

 
9780007272433: The Street Philosopher
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 000727243X ISBN 13: 9780007272433
Verlag: HarperCollins UK, 2009

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There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home -- the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused -- and the first on which the media had a major influence. The Street Philosopher -- the nineteenth-century term for a society writer, a gossip columnist -- captures this scene brilliantly. Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted by artist Robert Styles, he sets about exposing the incompetence of the army generals. Two years later, as Sebastopol burns, Thomas returns to England under mysterious circumstances. Desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea, he takes a job as a 'street philosopher', a society writer reporting on the gossip of the day. But on the eve of the great Art Treasures Exhibition, as Manchester prepares to welcome Queen Victoria, Thomas's past returns to haunt him in the most horrifying way...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Plampin was born in 1975 and lives in London. He completed a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art and now lectures on nineteenth-century art and architecture. He is the author of two previous novels, The Street Philosopher and The Devil’s Acre.

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Verlag
HarperCollins UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
000727243X
ISBN 13 
9780007272433
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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