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Shadows Move Among Them
by Edgar Mittelholzer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1951. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings listed). Blue and red cloth over boards with black decoration on front cover and black lettering to spine. Top edge died red. Very Good+ book in a Very Good jacket. Old price penciled to FFEP, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean with three closed tears and some creasing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 334 pages.
Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, "Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play," the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play—such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out—that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000705
- Title
- Shadows Move Among Them
- Author
- Edgar Mittelholzer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia & New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 334
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, romans, communal living, commune, communes, jungle, relationships, utopia, utopias, Jonestown, British Guiana, Guiana, Guyana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Erotica; Britain; Caribbean; Guyana;
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