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MINISTER'S WOOING
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palmyra, New York, United States
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About This Item
A. L. Burt Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. E--Not dated, c1945 or probably earlier. Wear, rubbing, and staining to green cloth covers. Inscription on front end page. Hinge paper cracked. Age toning. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. .
Synopsis
From the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest farmhouse with her widowed mother an their boarder, Samuel Hopkins, a famous Calvinist theologian who preaches against slavery. Mary is in love with the passionate James Marvyn, but Mary is devout and James is a skeptic, and Mary's mother opposes the union. James goes to sea, and when he is reportedly drowned, Mary is persuaded to become engaged to Dr. Hopkins.With colorful characters, including many based on real figures, and a plot that hinges on romance, The Minister's Wooing combines comedy with regional history to show the convergence of daily life, slavery, and religion in post-Revolutionary New England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Bookmarket
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30186
- Title
- MINISTER'S WOOING
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt Company
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Fiction, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Terms of Sale
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Book Repair, Professional, Tender Loving Repair of your books in Distress.Books, used, antiquarian, out-of-print, and gifts including Mini Book Earrings.A Little Shop That is BIG on Service.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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