| Description |
xiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. 'Goose-weather' -- 2. Ancients and ornamental hermits -- 3. Quacks and alchemists -- 4. Some sportsmen -- 5. Some amateurs of fashion -- 6. An observer of human nature -- 7. Portrait of a learned lady -- 8. Some men of learning -- 9. Some travellers -- 10. Charles Waterton: the South American wanderer -- 11. The god of this world -- 12. Of the benefits of posthumous fame -- 13. More pliant beings -- 14. Of revelations, courteous and otherwise, and of admirable removals -- 15. Weathercock wits -- 16. Serious circles -- 17. Marine adventurers (piracy and piety) |
| Analysis |
Eccentrics |
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England |
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Eccentrics |
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England |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: published as The English eccentrics. London : Faber, 1933 |
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Reprinted with minor amendments |
| Subject |
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- England.
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| Author |
Horder, Mervyn, 1910-1997.
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Folio Society
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