Surtees
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“Plain or Ringlets?”, in twelve parts
- £20.00
- Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured…
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Robert Smith Surtees: A Critical Study
- £50.00
- R. S. Surtees was an English editor, novelist, and sporting writer and a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his character John Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
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“Plain or Ringlets?”, in twelve parts
- £20.00
- Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured…
- Add to basket
-
Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Robert Smith Surtees: A Critical Study
- £50.00
- R. S. Surtees was an English editor, novelist, and sporting writer and a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his character John Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
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