Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
by Gura, Philip F
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0809094452
- ISBN 13
- 9780809094455
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, first printing, 8vo., xix+330pp. "Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge?the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth?is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel." Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009083
- Title
- Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
- Author
- Gura, Philip F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0809094452
- ISBN 13
- 9780809094455
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
- Size
- 8vo
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