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New York, NY Harper & Row: Torchbooks, 1967. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very light use; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing; sparse, faint foxing at front endpapers; binding square and secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. This is a REMAINDER, showing a mark at the bottom edge. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 243pp. First Ed thus, so stated. Trade Paperback. A collection of essays on the literature of the Victorian Period, a period of permanent revolution in manufacturing and productive institutions of the modern industrial state.  

New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1967. pages clean, dulled; edges soiled yellowing. binding loose, hinges broken. edge wear with dents, chips. corners dented, starting to split. covers worn, dented, scratched, scuffed, ink rubbed, chipped, dulled, aged, ect. covers creased along spine edges from use. spine edges worn, chipped, dented. general shelf wear. . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fair.

New York USA: Harper Torchbooks. The essays reprinted here will indicate....how varied are the responses we make today to the literature of the Victorian Period. There is no single approach to this body of writing and, for that matter, there is no clear-cut agreement as to what sorts of works should be included in the canon....The literature produced in the Victorian period offers a superb response to a new sort of experience, that of life lived in the midst of a permanent revolution set going by the manufacturing and productive institutions of the modern industrial state. There is nothing jaded in this response - it is freshly seen and evaluated by a group of writers who had themselves experienced life under an older dispensation and were in a position to judge what had been gained, what lost in the process. It is a literature criss-crossed with nostalgia and hope; with anger and humour. Above all it is the literature of an expansive age which knows it is going places but cannot name a specific… Read More

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