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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.]

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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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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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In The Attaché Haliburton presents his hero as a member of the American legation “to the Court of Saint Jamses.” This is undoubtedly Haliburton’s 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 (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
44269
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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