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Beyond the City
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1900. Book is in very good plus condition, uncommon so well preserved. Old bookstore label on the front pastedown.
"Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be? In this work Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well known."
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"Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be? In this work Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well known."
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Synopsis
From the book:If you please, mum, said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door, "number three is moving in. Two little old ladies, who were sitting at either side of a table, sprang to their feet with ejaculations of interest, and rushed to the window of the sitting-room. "Take care, Monica dear," said one, shrouding herself in the lace curtain; "don't let them see us. "No, no, Bertha. We must not give them reason to say that their neighbors are inquisitive. But I think that we are safe if we stand like this." The open window looked out upon a sloping lawn, well trimmed and pleasant, with fuzzy rosebushes and a star-shaped bed of sweet-william. It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad, modern, new metaled road. At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers. All three were equally new, but numbers one and two were curtained and sedate, with a human, sociable look to them; while number three, with yawning door and unkempt garden, had apparently only just received its furniture and made itself ready for its occupants. A four-wheeler had driven up to the gate, and it was at this that the old ladies, peeping out bird-like from behind their curtains, directed an eager and questioning gaze.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3757
- Title
- Beyond the City
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Date Published
- 1900
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Clarence, New York
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