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Lisheen
by P. A. Canon Sheehan
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Phoenix Publishing Company, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 454 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Noticeable foxing to text block edges. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Strong tanning to spine and edges.
Reviews
On Feb 24 2015, The Old Library Bookshop said:
When the evils of the world seem to press down from every side, then is the time to take up a novel like this one by Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan and let its sweetness work its magic. Sheehan was a Catholic priest and advocate for rights for his beloved Irish people. Yet in this novel at least, the hero is a wealthy landlord and--saints forbid--a Protestant. Bob Maxwell is goaded by Outram, a consummate imperialist fresh from India, to accept the challenge to live for a year as an Irish peasant. He finds charitable hospitality with the McAuliffe family at their bit of a farm they call Lisheen. For months, the family shares their meager food and pitiful lodgings with Maxwell, even caring for him through a dreadful bout of rheumatic fever. Although the setting of this novel predates the Great Famine, the horrors of eviction are already widespread and here graphically described. The reader, however dismayed by the turn of events, reads on eagerly in the sure knowledge that, as in a novel by Dickens, all will come out right in the end. A sprinkle of romance and a dash of the exotic East add a bit of spice to this otherwise sweet little novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1667981888BIL
- Title
- Lisheen
- Author
- P. A. Canon Sheehan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Phoenix Publishing Company
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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