Hunting Sketches
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few Victorian writers possessed Anthony Trollope's gift for dissecting the social rituals of English country life with such sharp-eyed affection, and Hunting Sketches stands as a masterclass in this art. Originally published as a series of essays in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1865, this collection presents a vivid gallery of fox-hunting characters — from the master of hounds to the lady who hunts and the sporting parson — capturing the personalities, pretensions, and passions that animated the great English hunting field. Trollope chronicles each type with a journalist's precision and a novelist's warmth, rendering the ritual of the hunt not merely as sport but as a complete social theatre. Illustrated with an introduction by the celebrated equestrian artist Lionel Edwards, this edition enriches Trollope's prose portraits with a visual grandeur befitting the subject. The collection illuminates the codes of honour, class, and camaraderie that governed Victorian rural society, offering a window into a world of muddy boots and morning mists that is both historically fascinating and compulsively readable. Trollope's style is characteristically genial yet incisive — he admires his subjects even as he gently satirises them — leaving the reader to wonder whether the hunting field is truly a sport or simply England's most elaborate stage.
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few Victorian writers possessed Anthony Trollope's gift for dissecting the social rituals of English country life with such sharp-eyed affection, and Hunting Sketches stands as a masterclass in this art. Originally published as a series of essays in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1865, this collection presents a vivid gallery of fox-hunting characters — from the master of hounds to the lady who hunts and the sporting parson — capturing the personalities, pretensions, and passions that animated the great English hunting field. Trollope chronicles each type with a journalist's precision and a novelist's warmth, rendering the ritual of the hunt not merely as sport but as a complete social theatre. Illustrated with an introduction by the celebrated equestrian artist Lionel Edwards, this edition enriches Trollope's prose portraits with a visual grandeur befitting the subject. The collection illuminates the codes of honour, class, and camaraderie that governed Victorian rural society, offering a window into a world of muddy boots and morning mists that is both historically fascinating and compulsively readable. Trollope's style is characteristically genial yet incisive — he admires his subjects even as he gently satirises them — leaving the reader to wonder whether the hunting field is truly a sport or simply England's most elaborate stage.