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LONDON: The Novel
by Rutherfurd, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0517591812
- ISBN 13
- 9780517591819
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About This Item
NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. 1st Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. 0517591812 . Quarter bound in publisher's tan paper over cream boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with numerous maps and family trees. A story that follows the River Thames as it flows through the heart of London, from the days of the Romans, through 16 centuries to the Victorian engineers who gave the city so many of its famous bridges, to the Dockland development of today. London is Edward Rutherfurd's third enormous volume of historical fiction. As with his previous works, London traces the history of a single location throughout its history by examining the interlinked lives of several families in Mitcheneresque manner. Although linked, each chapter of London can be read as a novella on its own. "Few literary novels tell us as much about the history of modern humans, or have such charity. - Daily Telegraph. "Edward Rutherfurd's grand new novel weaves together the great events of English history." - New York Times. "London, The Novel could hook you on history for life." - The Times . VERY GOOD+/VERY GOOD.. Maps and Family Trees. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xvi), 829, (1) pp .
Synopsis
Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, England, and was educated in Wiltshire and at Cambridge. He has since lived on both sides of the Atlantic, in Dublin and New York, but he returned to his roots to write his first novel, the best-selling Sarum , a history of Salisbury. This was followed by the best-selling Russka , a sweeping history of Russia from the cossack horsemen to the Bolshevik revolution. Until the 1980s, Edward Rutherfurd pursued a business career -- he attended Stanford Business School, worked for W.H. Smith, and was employed by Tory Party Central Office. As a child, he had been fascinated by the novels of C.S. Forester, Henty, and the historical romances of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His grandmother, Evelyn Winch, was a well-known romantic novelist of the 1930s. Rutherfurd was also influenced by the novels of James Michener, such as Covenant and Texas , and saw that no one had attempted a similar approach in the United Kingdom. Rutherfurd gave up his secure day job and spent two years researching and writing Sarum . When it was half-finished, and funds were running low, he realized he needed to find an agent. He approached agent Gill Coleridge with a few chapters and a synopsis. Within a month, Century bought the book in England, and the novel was auctioned in the United States. Ten years later, Sarum is still selling all over the world. Edward Rutherfurd currently lives outside Dublin, Ireland. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18797
- Title
- LONDON: The Novel
- Author
- Rutherfurd, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition. Later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517591812
- ISBN 13
- 9780517591819
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0517591812, Fiction;, Historical Fiction, London, English History
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