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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
October 3, 2013
Pages
264
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781492890799
ISBN-10
1492890790
Dimensions
0.60 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$14.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of the moment, is happily reminiscent of a satisfactory luncheon and blessedly expectant of an elaborate dinner to come. In her younger days Francesca had been known as the beautiful Miss Greech; at forty, although much of the original beauty remained, she was just dear Francesca Bassington. No one would have dreamed of calling her sweet, but a good many people who scarcely knew her were punctilious about putting in the âdear.â Her enemies, in their honester moments, would have admitted that she was svelte and knew how to dress, but they would have agreed with her friends in asserting that she had no soul. When oneâs friends and enemies agree on any particular point they are usually wrong. Francesca herself, if pressed in an unguarded moment to describe her soul, would probably have described her drawing-room. Not that she would have considered that the one had stamped the impress of its character on the other, so that close scrutiny might reveal its outstanding features, and even suggest its hidden places, but because she might have dimly recognised that her drawing-room was her soul. Francesca was one of those women towards whom Fate appears to have the best intentions and never to carry them into practice. With the advantages put at her disposal she might have been expected to command a more than average share of feminine happiness. So many of the things that make for fretfulness, disappointment and discouragement in a womanâs life were removed from her path that she might well have been considered the fortunate Miss Greech, or later, lucky Francesca Bassington. And she was not of the perverse band of those who make a rock-garden of their souls by dragging into them all the stoney griefs and unclaimed troubles they can find lying around them. Francesca loved the smooth ways and pleasant places of life; she liked not merely to look on the bright side of things but to live there and stay there. And the fact that things had, at one time and another, gone badly with her and cheated her of some of her early illusions made her cling the closer to such good fortune as remained to her now that she seemed to have reached a calmer period of her life. To undiscriminating friends she appeared in the guise of a rather selfish woman, but it was merely the selfishness of one who had seen the happy and unhappy sides of life and wished to enjoy to the utmost what was left to her of the former.
Editions
Hardcover
from Indypublish.Com (June 30, 2008)
9781437821499 | details & prices | 136 pages | List price $51.99
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
from Wildside Pr (February 28, 2008)
9781434461537 | details & prices | 272 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $29.95
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
from Alan Rodgers Books (December 31, 2006)
9781598184839 | details & prices | 120 pages | List price $22.95
With Maurice Baring |
from Kessinger Pub Co (May 31, 2004)
9781432609917 | details & prices | 268 pages | List price $42.95
from Indypublish.Com (December 1, 2002)
9781404336940 | details & prices | 136 pages | List price $23.99
Paperback
from Createspace Independent Pub (April 16, 2016)
9781532769399 | details & prices | 136 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.31 in. | List price $9.78
from Createspace Independent Pub (January 29, 2016)
9781523763399 | details & prices | 92 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.21 in. | 0.42 lbs | List price $5.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 20, 2015)
9781522810254 | details & prices | 132 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.30 in. | List price $10.99
About: Comus Bassington is described by his schoolmaster as "one of Nature's highly finished products.
About: Comus Bassington is described by his schoolmaster as "one of Nature's highly finished products.
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 15, 2015)
9781522765660 | details & prices | 158 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.36 in. | List price $8.12
from Createspace Independent Pub (October 2, 2015)
9781517617257 | details & prices | 214 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.49 in. | List price $18.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 3, 2015)
9781517190279 | details & prices | 92 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.21 in. | List price $6.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (June 16, 2015)
9781514379707 | details & prices | 146 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.33 in. | List price $15.90
About: "The Unbearable Bassington" from Saki.
About: "The Unbearable Bassington" from Saki.
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 24, 2014)
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from Createspace Independent Pub (October 12, 2014)
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from Createspace Independent Pub (September 23, 2014)
9781501082245 | details & prices | 88 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.20 in. | List price $6.99
About: Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W.
About: Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W.
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Createspace Independent Pub (October 3, 2013)
9781492890799 | details & prices | 264 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.60 in. | List price $14.99
About: Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W.
About: Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W.
from Createspace Independent Pub (November 1, 2012)
9781480226760 | details & prices | 116 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | List price $12.95
from Lightning Source Inc (August 30, 2008)
9788132026365 | details & prices | 128 pages | List price $12.36
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
from Wildside Pr (February 28, 2008)
9781434461520 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $19.95
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
from Lightning Source Inc (February 28, 2008)
9788132000631 | details & prices | 284 pages | List price $16.90
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
This edition also contains The Unbearable Bassington
from Alan Rodgers Books (January 31, 2007)
9781603120357 | details & prices | 120 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.42 lbs | List price $10.95
About: A writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture, Munro is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O.
About: A writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture, Munro is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O.
Large print edition from Echo Library (June 30, 2006)
9781846371417 | details & prices | 284 pages | List price $21.90
About: This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.
About: This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.
from Echo Library (June 30, 2006)
With Maurice Baring |
from Kessinger Pub Co (May 31, 2004)
9781417923687 | details & prices | 268 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $27.95
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
from Indypublish.Com (December 1, 2002)
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (September 1, 1984)
9780192813718 | details & prices | List price $5.95
About: Alone among Saki's works in being almost entirely located in London, this novel focuses on the Mayfair scene of bridge afternoons, dinner parties, and concerts.
About: Alone among Saki's works in being almost entirely located in London, this novel focuses on the Mayfair scene of bridge afternoons, dinner parties, and concerts.
CD/Spoken Word
Unabridged edition from Assembled Stories (May 30, 2006)
9781860150326 | details & prices | List price $59.95
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Peter Joyce (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Assembled Stories (December 1, 1998)
9781860154492 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $51.95
About: This early work by H.
About: This early work by H.
from Audio Book Contractors (January 1, 1991)
9781556850950 | details & prices | List price $19.99
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