Sir Nigel
by Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good; Minor shelf and edge wear, sticker ghost with asociated surface tear to front cover, cup ring to rear, paper startin
- ISBN 10
- 1853262293
- ISBN 13
- 9781853262296
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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Synopsis
From the book:Dame History is so austere a lady that if one, has been so ill-advised as to take a liberty with her, one should hasten to make amends by repentance and confession. Events have been transposed to the extent of some few months in this narrative in order to preserve the continuity and evenness of the story. I hope so small a divergence may seem a venial error after so many centuries. For the rest, it is as accurate as a good deal of research and hard work could make it. The matter of diction is always a question of taste and discretion in a historical reproduction. In the year 1350 the upper classes still spoke Norman-French, though they were just beginning to condescend to English. The lower classes spoke the English of the original Piers Plowman text, which would be considerably more obscure than their superiors' French if the two were now reproduced or imitated. The most which the chronicles can do is to catch the cadence and style of their talk, and to infuse here and there such a dash of the archaic as may indicate their fashion of speech.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria (BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23254
- Title
- Sir Nigel
- Author
- Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; Minor shelf and edge wear, sticker ghost with asociated surface tear to front cover, cup ring to rear, paper startin
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 1853262293
- ISBN 13
- 9781853262296
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Place of Publication
- Ware, Hertfordshire, England
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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