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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
December 11, 1997
Pages
436
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780192832580
ISBN-10
0192832581
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$11.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: In All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) Besant vividly portrays the poverty and deprivation of London's East End in a story about transformations and crossings of class-boundaries.
Simultaneously a `condition of England' novel, New Woman fiction, romance, comedy, satire and crime story, All Sorts and Conditions of Men has strong roots in the politics of nineteenth-century reform. Determined to use her inherited wealth benevolently, Angela Messenger, a young idealistic Cambridge graduate, changes her name and takes lodgings in a Stepney boarding-house to observe and gain understanding of the East End. Young aristocrat Harry Le Breton also haunts the area, discovering his origins, and a new sense of kinship. Consistently setting itself against the cheerless evangelical strain in Victorian philanthropy, All Sorts and Conditions of Men offers a blueprint for the cultural regeneration of Britain's proletariat as Angela and Harry plan a `Palace of Delight' to provide `a little more of the pleasures and graces of life' for the East Enders they have come to know. Indeed, five years after the book's publication, Besant's `generous and glowing imagination' was praised as the inspiration for the real-life `The People's Palace' on the Mile End Road, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men became that rare thing, a work of fiction which made something happen.
Simultaneously a `condition of England' novel, New Woman fiction, romance, comedy, satire and crime story, All Sorts and Conditions of Men has strong roots in the politics of nineteenth-century reform. Determined to use her inherited wealth benevolently, Angela Messenger, a young idealistic Cambridge graduate, changes her name and takes lodgings in a Stepney boarding-house to observe and gain understanding of the East End. Young aristocrat Harry Le Breton also haunts the area, discovering his origins, and a new sense of kinship. Consistently setting itself against the cheerless evangelical strain in Victorian philanthropy, All Sorts and Conditions of Men offers a blueprint for the cultural regeneration of Britain's proletariat as Angela and Harry plan a `Palace of Delight' to provide `a little more of the pleasures and graces of life' for the East Enders they have come to know. Indeed, five years after the book's publication, Besant's `generous and glowing imagination' was praised as the inspiration for the real-life `The People's Palace' on the Mile End Road, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men became that rare thing, a work of fiction which made something happen.
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Paperback
With Walter Besant |
from Createspace Independent Pub (October 29, 2014)
9781503022928 | details & prices | 620 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.40 in. | List price $23.00
About: All Sorts and Conditions of Men By Walter Besant
About: All Sorts and Conditions of Men By Walter Besant
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from Oxford Univ Pr (December 11, 1997)
9780192832580 | details & prices | 436 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $11.95
About: In All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) Besant vividly portrays the poverty and deprivation of London's East End in a story about transformations and crossings of class-boundaries.
About: In All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) Besant vividly portrays the poverty and deprivation of London's East End in a story about transformations and crossings of class-boundaries.
With Walter Besant |
from Createspace Independent Pub (March 2, 1882)
9781508693802 | details & prices | 326 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.74 in. | List price $17.99
About: The ten years' partnership of myself and my late friend Mr.
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