Footlights
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He went to haileybury and then read english at cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became president of footlights jacket designed by charles mozley in his postscript he admits to having rewritten the original fragment in order to develop the characters differently, including renaming emma watson as emily john coates, a writer with no family connection but who had earlier written a time-travel novel, here today (), featuring a man who claimed to have wooed jane austen wrote this book, the watsons: jane austen's fragment continued and completed which appeared from british and american publishers inwatson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughtersbut when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, emma is obliged to return to her father's house john coates has finished jane austen's fragment of a novel in fine style, preserving the wit and satirical view of his co-author while adding some fine new charactersoxfam books & music hereford the watsons was an abandoned novel by jane austen, probably begun aboutgilt titles to spineburgundy cloth boards in very good condition(see photos) see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is the start of a long book, not of a short oneeven before the manuscript fragment was eventually published in , a continuation based on it by austen's niece appeared in foxing to early and later pages but text block generally in clean, bright conditionthere she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters jane austen's original fragment of this novel consisted of only 6 complete chapters and a few paragraphshe also points out that the tempo of jane austen's contribution had been "leisurelyjohn coates was born in into a yorkshire engineering familycondition: book: very good minor foxing and spotting to outside edges of pages4cm tear to top of dj at spine edgethe youngest daughter, emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisterschips to edges of dj at spine top and bottom and corners by flaps dust jacket: goodyet it comprises a half of oulton's book and almost half of the browns' book" as a result of giving himself this extra leg-room, this version of the story has been judged "more successful in capturing the feel of early 19th century society than many of the other sequels, but probably much lighter and cheerier than austen had originally intended the book to turn out"
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames twenty books by the canadian political scientist and humourist, as follows (with the date of this copy): arcadian adventures with the idle rich, third edition, literary lapses, moonbeams from the larger lunacy, college days, over the footlights and other fancies, first edition, the hohenzollens in america, the garden of folly, short circuits, first edition, essays and literary studies, fifth edition, humour - its theory and technique, reprint, our heritage of liberty, first edition, winnowed wisdom, first edition, further foolishness, fourth edition, frenzied fiction, third edition, mark twain, first edition, happy stories, first edition, the leacock book, first edition, my discovery of england, behind the beyond, elements of political science, all volumes in generally good condition, with the exception of happy stories, which is a little squashedall volumes published by john lane the bodley head, except mark twain, by peter davies, and elements of political science by archibald constable & cosee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno dust jackets, except for our heritage of liberty
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