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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS
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Frances Trollope, Pamela Neville-Singleton, Pamela Neville-Singleton (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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£8.75 |
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ISBN 10: |
0140435611 |
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9780140435610 |
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PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
29 May, 1997 |
Pages: |
416 |
Description: |
Fanny Trollope set sail for America with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, taking with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts, and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. This book describes her misfortunes, and is a satirical account of a nation. |
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When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to England Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, Domestic Manners of the Americans is a vivid and hugely witty satirical account of a nation and was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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UK |
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Penguin Classics |
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