Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town-house in Great Queen Street?
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Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town-house in Great Queen Street?
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 1st Printing. A near fine, unread UK first edition, first printing hardback-in a near fine dustjacket-not price-clipped, a little rubbed with minimum foxing & a tiny nick to the top of spine-fitted with a removable, clear mylar sleeve-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-"Of course, rewriting a page-turner from the past offers some major perils, not the least of them being comparisons to the original. Carey, however, more than withstands the test of time, alluding to the formality of Victorian prose without ever bending over backward to duplicate it. In addition, his eye for physical detail--and the ways in which such details open small or large windows onto character--is on par with that of Dickens. Here, for example, he pins down both the body and soul of a household servant: "Miss Mott was lean and sinewy and there was nowhere much for such a violent shiver to hide itself. Consequently it went right up her spine and disappeared inside her little white cap and then, just when it seemed lost, it came out the other side and pulled up the ends of her thin mouth in a grimace." Throw in a wicked mastery of period slang, a subplot about Victorian mesmerism (of which Dickens was, in fact, a practitioner) and an amazing storytelling gift, and you have a novel which meets and exceeds almost any expectation one might bring to it"-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures available upon request.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CW6-A first edition first printing hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 327 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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First U.K. edition, SIGNED by author with NO inscription on half-title page, 1997 UK edition has slight wear to boards and dust jacket, overall clean, crisp and tight. INV#J-3 VG/VG.
This book is interesting and the personal history of the characters is the driving force of the plot. Interestingly enough it keeps you just about intersted, but the denouement is too expected, too deliberate to be believable. Certainly not as much of an achievement as "Oscar and Lucinda".