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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date February 1, 2016
Pages 102
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781523805884
ISBN-10 1523805889
Dimensions 0.23 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $6.25
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Author's Apology The author, who is merely an inventor of stories, may at little cost impress his readers with the scope of his general knowledge. For he may place the scene of his story in Milan at the Court of the Visconti and throw back the action half a thousand years, drawing across his stage splendid figures slimly silked or sombrely satined, and fill their mouths with such awsome oaths as "By Bacchus!" or "Sapristi!" and the like. He may also, does the fine fancy seize him, take for his villain no less a personage than Monseigneur, for hero a Florentine Count, as bright lady of the piece, a swooning flower of the Renaissance, all pink and white, with a bodice of plum velvet cut square at the breast, and showing the milk-white purity of her strong young throat. It is indeed a more difficult matter when one is less of an inventor, than a painstaking recorder of facts. When our characters are conventionally attired in trousers of the latest fashion, and ransacking mythology the oath-makers can accept no god worthier of witness than High Jove. Greatest of all disabilities consider this fact: that the scene must be laid in Brockley, S.E., a respectable suburb of London, and you realize the apparent hopelessness of the self-imposed task of the writer who would weave romance from such unpromising material. It would indeed seem well-nigh hopeless to extract the exact proportions of tragedy and farce from Kymott Crescent that go to make your true comedy, were it not for the intervention of the Duke, of Hank, his friend, of Mr. Roderick Nape, of Big Bill Slewer of Four Ways, Texas, and last, but by no means least, Miss Alicia Terrill of "The Ferns," 66, Kymott Crescent.

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from Createspace Independent Pub (February 1, 2016); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781523805884 | details & prices | 102 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.23 in. | List price $6.25
About: Author's Apology The author, who is merely an inventor of stories, may at little cost impress his readers with the scope of his general knowledge.
from Createspace Independent Pub (January 25, 2016); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781523678006 | details & prices | 196 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.45 in. | List price $11.99
About: The Duke de Montvillier and George Hankey, who discovered silver in Los Madges, have moved into Kymott Crescent.
from Createspace Independent Pub (January 14, 2016); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781523394265 | details & prices | 102 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.23 in. | List price $6.25
About: Author's Apology The author, who is merely an inventor of stories, may at little cost impress his readers with the scope of his general knowledge.
from Createspace Independent Pub (November 13, 2015); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781519273345 | details & prices | 101 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.36 lbs | List price $6.50
About: Author's Apology The author, who is merely an inventor of stories, may at little cost impress his readers with the scope of his general knowledge.
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 19, 2015); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781517358198 | details & prices | 128 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | List price $10.99
About: Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English writer.
from Createspace Independent Pub (August 29, 2015); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781517112592 | details & prices | 166 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.38 in. | List price $6.25
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from Createspace Independent Pub (May 14, 2014); titled "The Duke in the Suburbs"
9781499366983 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | List price $9.99
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