The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England. By the Author of By The Author of "The Clockmaker, or, Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick" [With] The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England. Second and Last Series [4 vols.]
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- All 4 vols. Have repairs to interior and exterior hinges and some head & tails of spines repaired with papers. Generally all
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
In The Attaché Haliburton presents his hero as a member of the American legation to the Court of Saint Jamses. This is undoubtedly Haliburtons most ambitious work. In it he tried to improve on his reputation as a satirist by turning his examination of human foibles from their peripheral manifestations in Nova Scotia to their centre in Britain. The Attaché became a respectable popular and literary success. Even the most condemnatory critics in Britain found much to praise in the books, and the sales, though smaller than those of The Clockmaker, were quite substantial. Haliburton still remained the seemingly inexhaustible raconteur and master of racy frontier diction and the excellence of this quality was by itself sufficient to obscure the fact that much more often in this work than in The Clockmaker the gap in probability between the anecdote and the meaning which the author applied to it had become too great for ready acceptance.
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- Schooner Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England. By the Author of By The Author of "The Clockmaker, or, Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick" [With] The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England. Second and Last Series [4 vols.]
- Author
- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Half brown calf with marbled boards & endpapers. The spines have bands with gilt floral designs to compartments and green &a
- Book Condition
- Used - All 4 vols. Have repairs to interior and exterior hinges and some head & tails of spines repaired with papers. Generally all
- Edition
- First Editions
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1843 & 1844
- Keywords
- Prose Nova Scotia Annapolis Valley, N. S. Windsor ns confederation
- Size
- 8vo.
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