The Plutocrat Tauchinitz Edition Collection of British and America Authors Vol, 4774

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchinitz, 1927. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Pocket Book, [16cm/6.25in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 330. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... On board ship, Ogle is smitten with the sophisticated good looks of a Parisian woman with a son about his own age. Mme. Momoro, however, is more interested in an American businessman who is dragging his family across the Atlantic to get daughter Olivia away from an unsuitable young man. To Ogle, Mr. Tinker appears to be a course, back-slapping shopkeeper, totally lacking in culture and sensitivity; the wife appears dull; the daughter sullen. Ogle has been brought up to believe in a natural aristocracy of intellectual, artistic individuals. He’s shocked that other intelligent people express high regard for Tinker and his buying power. When Ogle finds himself far from home, short of money, without friends, he’s forced to re-think his prejudices. Even if Booth Tarkington weren’t such a fine writer, The Plutocrat would be worth reading just to see how far we Americans have come — or gone — in the last century in our regard for the power of money. ... At the age of twenty-one Christian B. [Bernhard] Tauchinitz founded his firm [Tauchnitz Verlag] and began his famous collection of British authors (Tauchnitz Edition) in 1841, bringing out reprints of British and, later, American authors ... in paperbacks, but restricting sales and distribution exclusively to non-English speaking countries. Tauchnitz, and later his son, Christian Carl Bernhard, made frequent trips to England, and established personal connections with Dickens, Disraeli, Carlyle, Thackeray, and many other famous authors of the period... Often these continental reprints came out shortly after the original editions, and at times even simultaneously. By 1937, the year of the firm's centenary, 5290 titles had been issued." - Frank L. Schick, The Paperbound Book in AmericaNew York: 1958.