Shirley
by Charlotte Bronte
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
511pp, maroon boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine, roughcut pages, 16 illustrations by F.H Townsend. Slight wear on spine extremities, light foxing in places does not touch text block. 2 pages of advertisement in rear for other volumes. Clean copy of this reprint of Bronte's second novel originally published in 1849. Scarce in this unmarked condition. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel Shirley was an uncommon but distinctly male name. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name.
Synopsis
Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Roberts brother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Northwest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1145
- Title
- Shirley
- Author
- Charlotte Bronte
- Illustrator
- F. H . Townsend
- Format/Binding
- Maroon boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Service & Paton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Pages
- 511pp
- Size
- 5.5" x 7 7/8"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Charlotte Bronte, Luddite uprising
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / General;
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....