Sot-Weed Factor, The
by Barth John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Good
- Seller
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Wellington, New Zealand
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Synopsis
The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by John Barth that satirizes picaresque novels such as Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones. ("Sot-weed" is an old term for the tobacco plant. A "factor" is a middleman who buys something to resell it. ) TIME included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel takes its title from a poem of the same name published in London in 1708 and signed Ebenezer Cooke.
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- Bookseller
- The Last Word (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000029
- Title
- Sot-Weed Factor, The
- Author
- Barth John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - 1st;
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