A Year's Letters - Couverture rigide

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814777589 ISBN 13 : 9780814777589

Editeur : New York University Press, 1974

Synopsis

xxxviii 195p cloth, dustjacket, plates, nice book. Ed. F J Sypher, the first & only unexpurgated edition of Love's Cross-Currents

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

EilR MADAM: I HAVE read your manuscript with due care and attention, and regret that I cannot but pass upon it a verdict anything but favourable. A long sojourn in France, it appears to me, has vitiated your principles and confused your judgment. Whatever may be the case abroad, you must know that in England marriages are usually prosperous; that among us divorces are unknown, and infidelities incomprehensible. The wives and mothers of England are exempt, through some inscrutable and infallible law of nature, from the errors to which women in other countries (if we may trust the evidence of tradition) are but too fatally liable. If I understand aright the somewhat obsciure drift of your work, you bring upon the stage at least one married Englishwoman who prefers to her husband another man. This may happen on the Continent; in England it cannot happen. You are not, perhaps, aware that some years since it was proposed to establish among us aD ivorce Court. In a very few months it collapsed, amid the jeers and hoots of aC hristian and matrimonial people. There were no cases to be tried. England passed through the furnace of this experiment, and came out pure.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Novel in thirty Letters with its Prologue of five Chapters, was originally published in a short-lived London weekly, The Tatler, during the period from August 25th toD ecember 29th, 1877. It was issued under the pseudonym Mrs. Horace Manners, and while no doubt whatever exists as to its authorship, as one may easily discover fromM r. Wise sB ibliography, the work has never been publicly acknowledged by Mr. Swinburne. Our reprint is made from a copy ofT heT atler formerly owned by Frederick Locker-L ampson. On a fly leaf he has noted in pencil: I should think this would some day be thought a curious book. It is never likely to be republished. F. L. A little lower on the same page he also makes known an interesting fact: I once had the MS. Swinburne lent it me, and I think it has been a good deal altered. So far as we are aware no critic has ever passed judgment on the work. An ironic experiment in novel writing, it is assuredly unique in English literature. It would indeed appear as if Mr.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0814777589
• ISBN 13: 9780814777589
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 195
• Éditeur: Sypher Francis J
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible