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TENNYSON’S GIFT

Book cover ofTennysons Gift
  • Author: Lynne TRUSS
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Published: 2010
  • Description: Softback, Very Good
  • Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket
  • Edition: Re-issue
  • ISBN-13: 9780007355273
  • Ref: 14499
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A UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a single number 1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  Some tanning to pages.

SYNOPSIS:  “It is July 1864 and the Isle of Wight is buzzing with eccentric creative types.  A morose Alfred Tennyson is reciting Maud to empty sofas, whilst photographer Julia Margaret Cameron white-washes roses and tries to capture Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) in heroic poses.

In this cauldron of unrequited love and egotism step an acclaimed painter, his sixteen-year-old wife and a father-and-daughter team of phrenologists.  A foray into love, literature eccentricity and beards…”

Packed weight 285gms.  IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH