Islandia. [Introduction by Sylvia Wright]
by Wright, Austin Tappan
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1958. Second edition (first published 1942). Map of Islandia on endpapers. 1018 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial buckram. Near fine in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Second edition (first published 1942). Map of Islandia on endpapers. 1018 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wright's first and only book. Generally considered a "utopian" novel, Islandia describes the journey and adventures of John Lang, a once very proper American college student. Austin Tappan Wright did not just write a novel of adventures in a strange land and civilization; Islandia is a country with a history, towns, cities and streets, its own geography, language, people (and demographics), politics, law and customs, even its virtues and faults.
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- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 245857
- Title
- Islandia. [Introduction by Sylvia Wright]
- Author
- Wright, Austin Tappan
- Format/Binding
- Map of Islandia on endpapers. 1018 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Pictorial buckram. Near fine in a near fine pictorial dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition (first published 1942)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- American
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