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Penguin 1955. Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost., Penguin 1955, 0, Penguin Books 1955. Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs, Penguin Books 1955, 0, London England: The Reprint Society, 1952. Florence Nightingale was born one year after Queen Victoria, the younger daughter of wealthy and possessive parents to whom she was a source of mingled pride and pain for thirty-four years. After that date, pride predominated. The author has described with uncommon insight what that life was. Although , on the surface, all in the Victorian home was smoothness and peace, Florence was brought up in a hot-house of emotion. Miss Nightingale grew up in this age, and was indelibly impressed by it. She had an irrepressible sense of humour, and she was possessed of as much physical as mental courage. It was a tradegy for her that the Call which she heard at the age of seventeen could not be obeyed until she was thirty-four. The dramatic story of her sufferings and successes in the ghastly yellow Barrack Hospital of Scutari has never been told more convincingly. She returned to England, broken in health, but an administrator. More than half a century of life lay before her, but it was from a sick-bed that she was to work for the Army in India, Civilian and Military hospitals, Workhouse Reform, an Army Medical College, and Nursing. The catalogue sounds awe-inspiring, as the subject for half a biography, but it is an astonishing fact that Mrs. Woodham-Smith has grappled with her ample material so skilfully that the reader's attention never flags. She has, moreover, had access to some manuscripts up to now unavailable. Wear and tear to D/J. Small piece of D/J missing from spine.. Reprint. Boards. Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback., The Reprint Society, 1952, 1.75, London England: The Reprint Society. Very Good/Fair. 1952. 1st Reprint Society. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hardback Hardback. . Brown cloth with gilt lettering. wear and tear to d/j.Publisher's Note - This edition of Florence Nightingale reproduces Cecil Woodham-Smnith's biography as published in the United States of America, where it was a monthly choice of the Literary Guild. The same text has been translated into a number of European languages. Owing to the high cost of printing in America the author herself made certain eliminations from the original text. In carrying out this work she took care to remove only such details as were likely to have their main appeal to the student of the Nineteenth century. Illustrated. 450 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) ., The Reprint Society, 1952, 2.5, Capstone, 1999. Library Binding. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Capstone, 1999, 5<