ISBN: 9789357311052 - mr. meeson's will (yellowbacks) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A clash of wills!Partly a Robinsonade, Mr Meeson's Will was based on a well-known anecdote of the time. The London Globe in fact seemed to hit that Haggard had based his book on a previous book by Aubert, when the Clarence and Richmond Examiner provided an eyewitness account of a gathering attended by Haggard where some legal pupils after having had a fair bit of wine intended to hoax their 'eminent Chancery lawyer' and 'these newly made advocates' had proposed this curious question in a rather ribald context - whether a will written on skin would be considered legal. The examiner cited this as the source of the plot which concerns a marooned man's will tattooed on the back of a woman in a desperate attempt to remedy his earlier will.…

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