Robert Smith Surtees: Scenes And Characters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few writers captured the boisterous, mud-spattered world of Victorian English hunting society with the same razor-sharp wit and affectionate satire as Robert Smith Surtees, and Robert Smith Surtees: Scenes and Characters presents a handpicked collection of his most vivid and entertaining passages. Edited and introduced by Cyril Ray, this anthology draws together the finest moments from Surtees's beloved cast of grotesques and gentlemen, from the immortal Cockney grocer-sportsman Jorrocks to the hapless Soapey Sponge, painting a richly comic portrait of an England obsessed with the chase, the hunt, and the social theatre that surrounds it. Surtees occupies a unique and somewhat underappreciated corner of the Victorian literary canon — a chronicler of rural manners whose influence on later writers, including Dickens, was quietly profound. His prose crackles with dialogue, physical comedy, and a keen observer's eye for class pretension and human folly. Ray's editorial hand provides an invaluable guide for the modern reader, contextualising Surtees's world and illuminating why these characters, so rooted in a vanished England, remain irresistibly alive. Whether you are a seasoned admirer or a curious newcomer, this collection will leave you wondering how so gloriously disreputable a world ever managed to disappear.
Author: Robert Smith Surtees
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few writers captured the boisterous, mud-spattered world of Victorian English hunting society with the same razor-sharp wit and affectionate satire as Robert Smith Surtees, and Robert Smith Surtees: Scenes and Characters presents a handpicked collection of his most vivid and entertaining passages. Edited and introduced by Cyril Ray, this anthology draws together the finest moments from Surtees's beloved cast of grotesques and gentlemen, from the immortal Cockney grocer-sportsman Jorrocks to the hapless Soapey Sponge, painting a richly comic portrait of an England obsessed with the chase, the hunt, and the social theatre that surrounds it. Surtees occupies a unique and somewhat underappreciated corner of the Victorian literary canon — a chronicler of rural manners whose influence on later writers, including Dickens, was quietly profound. His prose crackles with dialogue, physical comedy, and a keen observer's eye for class pretension and human folly. Ray's editorial hand provides an invaluable guide for the modern reader, contextualising Surtees's world and illuminating why these characters, so rooted in a vanished England, remain irresistibly alive. Whether you are a seasoned admirer or a curious newcomer, this collection will leave you wondering how so gloriously disreputable a world ever managed to disappear.