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Fair. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 616 p. Oxford World's Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Some wear and tear on cover, pages in good condition, writing on inside cover.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward, (the Riverside Literature Series) to cart. $5.46, fair condition, Sold by Redux Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wyoming, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1906 by Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
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Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages have just a few markings. Covers show liht edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Hinges cracked but binding intact. Previous owner has written on book fore edge and inside covers. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Very Good. The publication date and edition are not listed: we estimate a ca. 1880 publication date. Hardcover, terra-cotta red cloth with beveled boards, with Scott's silhouette, gilt, to the front cover, and the title, gilt, to the spine. The illustrations throughout the text are steel engravings. Condition is Very Good, with light shelf wear, and bumped corners, and also the hinges are tender. Pages: 348.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $8.00, good condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1922 by Macmillan and Co..
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Good in J Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Edition and Printing Not Stated (G12). Ex-library, good in good-dust jacket. Book: slight wear at top & bottom of spine, remains on inside front & rear cover where jacket flaps were pasted, bookplate & stamp on front endpaper, name stamps on all 3 fore-edges of pages, name stamp on center of title-pag, pocket & slip removed from rear endpaper. 14.5 x 21cm. hard cover. 1138pp.
It was a happy surprise when I opened the package and realized I had in my hands an old library edition of one of Scott's classics, Quentin Durward. It has lovely art work .
The book arrived in good time and in excellent shape.
Skywalker
Apr 9, 2012
Quentin Durward - Satire on the code of chivalry
I recently watched the Hollywood movie version of Quentin Durward (in several Youtube installments), starring Robert Taylor, Kaye Kendall, and Robert Morley; and I decided to pick up a used hard-bound copy to read in the original literary format. Even after having read barely 70 pages of the book, including the 33-page "Introduction", I was able to affirm that for once Hollywood captured the book's droll, ironic humor, especially in the on-screen characterization of Louis XI (aka the "Spider King") as he was portrayed by Robert Morley.
I found myself chuckling aload at several passages in the introduction alone, in which Scott spends 31 pages describing a visit to France during a decline in his fortunes and his dismay at the ensuing conversion of his neice, Christian, to Catholicism, and her subsequent enrollment in a convent, and at his fifty-year-old Aunt's marriage to a French pop-in-jay described as looking "as if one pair of half-extended compasses had been placed perpendicularly upon the top of another, while the space on which the hinges revolved quite sufficed to represent the body ... the rest was mustache, pelisse, and callico trouser."
Scott eventually got around to the point of having an introduction, where (after 30+ pages) his host's remote Scottish lineage and extensive library of illuminated works on French history became the inspiration for this story about a Scottish adventurer's exploits during the era when Louis XI's Pre-Machiavellian intrigues solidified France into a modern state while simultaneously putting the final nails in the coffin's of both feudalism and the obsolescent "code of chivalry."
I finally finished th book, and it maintained its droll irony and dead-pan gallows-humor throughout! Very amusing - not at all what I had expected from Sir Walter Scott of all people.
