First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal's fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lancashire mill town transformed by the Industrial Revolution. Disenfranchised cotton workers are restless, while landed gentry make uneasy common cause with newly wealthy manufacturers. When painter Tom Strickland encounters the combustible Magnus Crawford, lately returned from military service abroad, he is drawn into a web of local hatreds and intrigues that will lead to an epic conclusion at the siege of Sebastopol. 'First-rate ...
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First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal's fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lancashire mill town transformed by the Industrial Revolution. Disenfranchised cotton workers are restless, while landed gentry make uneasy common cause with newly wealthy manufacturers. When painter Tom Strickland encounters the combustible Magnus Crawford, lately returned from military service abroad, he is drawn into a web of local hatreds and intrigues that will lead to an epic conclusion at the siege of Sebastopol. 'First-rate - I was hooked from the first page... Jeal has a close sympathy for the passions and politics of Victorian Britain.' Times 'A long, meaty, intelligent, historical novel, full of qualities like surprise, expectation and its fulfilment, dramatic description and real understanding of the physical enormities of old-style campaigns like the Crimea.' Financial Times 'Jeal handles his ambitious range of settings with considerable craftsmanship.'TLS
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1977. Book Club. First. VG. dj. 9x5.5. 475pp. 712g. [OBB] This is not only an immensely exciting novel, but also a very vivid evocation of the Victorian world. From the bustling of Lancashire, the action moves first to London, then to the Crimea. This book is in the end a testament to hope and endurance and everything in it is as real as if we had been there ourselves. Tom is a painter and hopes to win a commission from Lord Goodchild, instead he is drawn into a dangerous web of local hatreds and intrigues, intensified by the forthcoming local election. Savage riots on polling day set off a series of dramatic events, which affect the main characters of this novel.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (a few marks on top edge) in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed, trifling wear to extremities); pp. [iv], 476 (last blank). A near fine copy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. The jacket is a bit sunned, marked and edgeworn but has suffered minimal paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. The endpapers are a little marked.
