Albion's Story
by Grenville, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151001227
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001224
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. 1st United States Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0151001227 . Quarter bound in orange cloth over red boards, red lettering on spine, printed endpapers. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket shows light wear, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 375, (1) pp .
Synopsis
In this "startling, fasciniating, disturbing" (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman can persuade himself that he has a right, perhaps even a "manly" duty to rape any woman under his control: his shopgirls, his servants, his wife, even his daughter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17087
- Title
- Albion's Story
- Author
- Grenville, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st United States Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151001227
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001224
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0151001227, Fiction;, Literature;, Novels;
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