Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions
by SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Cloth faded and worn at the spine and edges; very good copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857, 1857. First edition. NCBEL III, 1610. Cloth faded and worn at the spine and edges; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering. Eight pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions, a novel written in the form of the diary of Charles Thorndale, is one of the great 19th century fictional works of ideas and philosophical and religious opinions; and it remains enjoyable today. It is only one of two works by miscellaneous writer, poet and philosopher William Henry Smith (1808-1872), whom the ODNB describes as "one of the most solid and productive of the denizens of the Victorian literary world to have been completely forgotten."
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27372
- Title
- Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions
- Author
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY
- Format/Binding
- NCBEL III, 1610
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth faded and worn at the spine and edges; very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857
- Date Published
- 1857
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