Grossmann edith searle (8 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b In Revolt. [A novel.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Grossmann, Edith Searle; br/b/b 1893 [1892].br/b/b 426 p. ; 8º.br/b/b 012641.e.5.br/.…

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Beige Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 92 pages, frontispiece photo and other b/w photos. Slight water stain at the bottom of the covers but not extending into the contents pages. Card pasted on front endpaper "With Professor J. Macmillan Brown's compliments.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Heart of the Bush by Edith Searle Grossmann VERY SCARCE. Published by Sands & Co, London, 1910, first edition. Good hardback, boards have some marks and a little rubbing and bumping, spine is dulled down with splitting and fraying to cloth. 1910 written in ink on title page. Pages are tanned with some foxing. Some splitting to paper at internal hinges but binding firm. 334 pages. The Heart of the Bush is a romance, that most conservative of genres that tidies up the problems it posits. Romance is a favourite genre of colonial writers because of the way it allows the difficulties of settlement to be examined and resolved. Unlike earlier interracial romances, such as Ranolf and Amohia, The Heart of the Bush offers the reader lovers who are Pakeha and also 'native' in the sense that they are born in New Zealand. The difference between them and the difficulties between them depend on the degree to which and the manner in which they have become indigenous. Adelaide, the heroine of The Heart of the Bush, has been educated in England. Her suitor, Dennis, has remained on her father's New Zealand farm as its manager. Dennis's rough charms and his ease within the landscape are compared to the smooth metropolitan glamour of his rival for Adelaide's affections, the Englishman Horace Brandon: Judged by every civilized standard, Horace Brandon was incomparably the finer man of the two, but he would have been incongruous amongst the mountains and the clouds where Dennis was quite at home.5 Despite her anxiety that the sophisticated Horace might possess Svengali-like powers and mesmerise her into submission 'by some psychic means' (72), Adelaide's choice, early in the novel, is easily made, and involves a rejection of Englishness and propriety: 'I will be a wild girl, untamed, un-English, without taste or principles, a social outcast, a moral reprobate, anything but Horace Brandon's wife,' she cried inwardly.…

Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Some rubbing and foxing to boards.; 92 pages including frontispiece. Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt portrait on front board. Page dimensions: 178 x 121mm. [Reference: Bagnall G939] Very Good- No dust jacket as issued.…