Verlag: New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, 2020
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, fresh attractive copy, very good gray hardcover, appears unused. GOODMAN, RUTH. The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxi, 330pp., . "'The queen of living history' (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution--from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity" - CONTENTS: Living off the land -- Out of the woods -- The draw of coal -- London, transformed -- The spreading blaze -- Cooks' tools -- A new menu -- Cleaning-up -- The domestic burden. ISBN 9781631497636.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2012, 2012
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Gorra, Michael Edward. Portrait of a novel: Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2012, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line, xxiv, 385pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, very good black and yellow hardcover, fresh attractive copy with tiny ding to top right corner of cover. A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. - CONTENTS: An old man in Rye -- A preparation for culture. The girl in the doorway ; A native of no country ; A superstitious valuation ; Along the Thames -- The marriage plot. Her empty chair ; Proposals ; An unmarried man ; A London life ; The envelope of circumstances -- Italian journeys. Bellosguardo hours ; Mr. Osmond ; Stranieri ; An uncertain terrain ; A Venetian interlude ; Fenimore -- Sex and serials, the Continent and the critics. Maupassant and the monkey ; The magazines ; The Roccanera ; The art of fiction -- Putting out the lights. The altar of the dead ; "I was perfectly free" ; Working in the dark ; The second chance ; Endgame. ISBN 9780871404084.
Verlag: New York, A W Publishing, 1977
ISBN 10: 089104079X ISBN 13: 9780891040798
Anbieter: Versand-Antiquariat Konrad von Agris e.K., Aachen, Deutschland
Kl.-8°, Broschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. unpaginierte Seiten Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Papier in sehr gutem Zustand. Erbauliche Literatur eines unterschätzten Gebietes der Populärkultur. ISBN: 9780891040798 . Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle Option (in Deutschland Brief oder DHL-Paket, ins Ausland Warenpost oder DHL-Paket). Preis inkl. MwSt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 260.
Verlag: London: The London Printing and Publishing Company / New York: A. W. Gittens
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Acceptable. 1887. Green cloth. Folio. Two volumes in one. lxii & 144 pp / 192 pp. Illustrated. Some shelf wear to boards. Title label on spine is severely worn, scuffed, and chipped. Corners bumped. Front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked. Pages are toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Altogether a sound working copy.