The Longest Journey
by Forster, E. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, pocket edition, no d/j, green cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titling bright; text block firm (slight forwa
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1947. pocket. hardback. Very good, pocket edition, no d/j, green cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titling bright; text block firm (slight forward lean), pages tight and unmarked, but some foxing on endpapers, top edge green; owner's neat inscription on ffep.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Forster's 2nd novel, published in 1907 two years after Where Angels Fear to Tread. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school. Giving up his hopes and values for those of the conventional world, he sinks into a world of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.
Synopsis
"The cow is there," said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, "She is there, the cow. There, now."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132097
- Title
- The Longest Journey
- Author
- Forster, E. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, pocket edition, no d/j, green cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titling bright; text block firm (slight forwa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- pocket, fiction, Forster
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_\"\" x 4\"\")
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- Gilt
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...