1985, ISBN: 9780394540245

Hardcover

The Hogarth Press, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. Second Impression. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly t… More...

The Hogarth Press, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. Second Impression. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and staining all over. Stains worse towards top edge of boards. Gilt lettering is heavily dulled., The Hogarth Press, 1954, 2.5, New York. 1985. June 1985. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394540247. 292 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting: Detail from L'Heure de l'Aperitif (Caf? de Nuit) by Richard Emil Miller. Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III. Photograph courtesy of Christie's, New York. Jacket design by Naomi Osnos . keywords: Psychology Sociology Gossip. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From the author of THE FEMALE IMAGINATION, a profound and witty book that is both defense and celebration of a much-maligned form of talk. The art of gossip, Patricia Spacks contends, is to make something out of little or nothing; the art of the novel is comparable. Beginning with a wonderful and detailed anatomy of gossip (she lays out a morality, an aesthetics, a psychology - even an economics - of gossip), the author goes on to trace its historical association with women, and the importance of that link in positive as well as negative ways. Building on this framework, she considers gossip both as a subject and as a literary technique - in Restoration comedy, in famous letters (ranging from those of Horace Walpole to those of Virginia Woolf), in great biographies (Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, among others), in English and American novels (by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, and William Thackeray; by Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Doris Lessing, and Toni Morrison) - even in the thrillers of Agatha Christie. Studded with wonderful and lengthy quotes (of course), the book is itself an invitation to inspired literary eavesdropping. inventory #6761 ISBN: 0394540247., 0<

1985, ISBN: 0394540247

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780394540245], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Alfred A Knopf, Publisher, New York, NY], GOSSIP, LITERATURE, LETTERS, BIOGRAPHIES, COMMUNICATION, CONVERSATION, PSYCHOLOGY, FICTION. LIES, … More...

[EAN: 9780394540245], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Alfred A Knopf, Publisher, New York, NY], GOSSIP, LITERATURE, LETTERS, BIOGRAPHIES, COMMUNICATION, CONVERSATION, PSYCHOLOGY, FICTION. LIES, ORAL TRADITION,, Biography & Autobiography|Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Psychology & Psychiatry|Creative Ability, Psychology & Psychiatry|Social Psychology, Social Science|Women's Studies, Psychology & Psychiatry|Personality, Social Science|Customs & Traditions, Jacket, Alfred A Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1985. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($18.95); light age toning of jacket. Brown boards with black cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 287 pp 8vo. A celebration and defense of the art of "idle talk"; a brilliant exploration of its role in literature (novels, memoirs, letters, journals) as well as in life. The art of gossip is comparable to the novel. The author traces the historical association of gossip with women in good and bad ways. She considers gossip as both a subject and as a literary technique. An invitation to inspired literary eavesdropping. A clean pristine copy., Books<

1985, ISBN: 0394540247

[EAN: 9780394540245], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.], [650G NOEBAY SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SCIENCE GOSSIP WOMEN, Jacket, The dust jacket has a little wear, wit… More...

[EAN: 9780394540245], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.], [650G NOEBAY SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SCIENCE GOSSIP WOMEN, Jacket, The dust jacket has a little wear, with a few small scuffs. The page edges are lightly tanned, and there is a felt-tip pen remainder mark on the bottom. The front endpaper has an inscription from a previous owner, and there is some highlighting through-out the book. 287 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown., Books<