Richard harris barham (446 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. ex libris.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume1. Book.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. With eighty-eight distinct editions and some 450,000 licensed copies in print, The Ingoldsby Legends of Richard Harris Barham (writing as Thomas Ingoldsby) was among the most beloved and most quoted works of nineteenth-century English literature. Long out of print, it is now available in a fully annotated two-volume edition, complete with over a hundred illustrations by John Tenniel, George Cruikshank, George Du Maurier, John Leech, Arthur Rackham and others. For inexhaustible fun that never gets flat and scarcely ever simply uproarious, for a facility and felicity in rhyme and rhythm which is almost miraculous, and for a blending of the grotesque and the terrible . no one competent to judge and enjoy will ever go to Barham in vain. - George Saintsbury, A History of Nineteenth Century Literature In the growth of English short fiction Barham's work looms larger yet. Many a good story and tale are scattered through the corpus of English fiction prior to the 1830s, but it is not, I think, an exaggeration to claim Barham as the first consistent English writer of the true short story. - Wendall V. Harris, British Short Fiction in the Nineteenth Century Richard Barham was a genuine poet, who exerts a peculiar spell. A man of some property in Kent, a minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, an amateur but learned antiquary, he wrote mainly to amuse himself, and his verse has a spontaneity of unexpected rhyming and reckless imagination that makes it different from anybody else's . Barham was gifted with some special genius which makes his meters and rhyming as catching as music, so that they run in your head after reading. - Edmund Wilson, The Devils and Canon Barham Popular phrases, the most prosaic sentences, the cramped technicalities of legal diction, and snatches of various languages are worked in with an apparent absence of all art or effort; not a word seems out of place, not an expression forced, whilst syllables the most intractable find the only partners fitted for them throughout the range of our language. These Legends have often been imitated, but never equalled. - Walter Hamilton, Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors Barham brought exceptional qualities to the development of his particular art. He was a wit, and his initial success was won by his startling originality. Not only did he adapt the Gallic spirit and conte to the exigencies of the English language: his blending of saints and demons, ghosts and abbots, monkish legend and romance, antiquarian lore and classical knowledge, murder and crime, with his own freakish and whimsical sense of humour, his lightning leaps from grave to gay, his quaint verbal quips, his wealth of topical allusion and most bizarre rhymes - all combined to secure him immediate attention and resultant fame. - Stewart Marsh Ellis, Mainly Victorian. …

paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2. Book.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. With eighty-eight distinct editions and some 450,000 licensed copies in print, The Ingoldsby Legends of Richard Harris Barham (writing as Thomas Ingoldsby) was among the most beloved and most quoted works of nineteenth-century English literature. Long out of print, it is now available in a fully annotated two-volume edition, complete with over a hundred illustrations by John Tenniel, George Cruikshank, George Du Maurier, John Leech, Arthur Rackham and others. For inexhaustible fun that never gets flat and scarcely ever simply uproarious, for a facility and felicity in rhyme and rhythm which is almost miraculous, and for a blending of the grotesque and the terrible . no one competent to judge and enjoy will ever go to Barham in vain. - George Saintsbury, A History of Nineteenth Century Literature In the growth of English short fiction Barham's work looms larger yet. Many a good story and tale are scattered through the corpus of English fiction prior to the 1830s, but it is not, I think, an exaggeration to claim Barham as the first consistent English writer of the true short story. - Wendall V. Harris, British Short Fiction in the Nineteenth Century Richard Barham was a genuine poet, who exerts a peculiar spell. A man of some property in Kent, a minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, an amateur but learned antiquary, he wrote mainly to amuse himself, and his verse has a spontaneity of unexpected rhyming and reckless imagination that makes it different from anybody else's . Barham was gifted with some special genius which makes his meters and rhyming as catching as music, so that they run in your head after reading. - Edmund Wilson, The Devils and Canon Barham Popular phrases, the most prosaic sentences, the cramped technicalities of legal diction, and snatches of various languages are worked in with an apparent absence of all art or effort; not a word seems out of place, not an expression forced, whilst syllables the most intractable find the only partners fitted for them throughout the range of our language. These Legends have often been imitated, but never equalled. - Walter Hamilton, Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors Barham brought exceptional qualities to the development of his particular art. He was a wit, and his initial success was won by his startling originality. Not only did he adapt the Gallic spirit and conte to the exigencies of the English language: his blending of saints and demons, ghosts and abbots, monkish legend and romance, antiquarian lore and classical knowledge, murder and crime, with his own freakish and whimsical sense of humour, his lightning leaps from grave to gay, his quaint verbal quips, his wealth of topical allusion and most bizarre rhymes - all combined to secure him immediate attention and resultant fame. - Stewart Marsh Ellis, Mainly Victorian. …

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Curikshank, George (illustratore).

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Stringbound. Condizione: Poor. 4 3/4 X 7 1/4. No publication date, but a later printing circa 1880s. Cord-bound with full-color illustrated card wraps and gilt edges. Slight upper corner curl. Heavy wear to the spine, but the covers are holding well. Rear cover has stains and there is damage to all but the first four pages in the form of a half-moon tear at the top edge that diminishes in size from rear cover to page 5. The tears do not interfere with text or illustrations. 20 pages, unnumbered. Verse for children, known for its satirical take on Catholic Church rituals. Black and white illustrations and color plates. This edition retained the original text, including the controversial "Jim Crow" reference in the final verse.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No date of publication given; probably late 19th century. 12mo. pp xxiii, 520. Frontispiece missing; 18 additional monochrome plates (all present). Blue-green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Boards with a few marks; edgeworn; faded to spine and margins of front board. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Light toning to front endpaper. Title page soiled and with small closed tear at gutter. Pages with occasional spots; heavier foxing to a few pages at rear. Gutters starting to crack in a few places but text block remains firmly bound.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Illustrated wraps as issued. A peculiar, illustrated tale, told in rhyme, from the Ingoldsby Legends -- of the canonization of "Jim Crow", an unruly but heroic jackdaw. Printed by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Fine Arts Work in London (circa 1880). Page block is sturdy and intact, but is no longer attached to wraps; light wear to edges of wraps. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. 9p., rubricated heads and numerals, hardbound in 7x5 inch boards, cloth backstrip, and a printed paper cover label. A nice production; as it were, fine-press once removed. Casing is a little worn, toned and scratched; lies flat and square, a good to very good copy. Pressman and introducer Dille has reduced the original story to expert doggerel; "I think," he says, "my preference for this particular legend is because of the denouement, which involves not only the pharmacological effects of cyanide but also the delicate accomplishment of homicide the the method of Burke and Hare".…

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. Reprint. This edition published by Bentley in 1864 only has a few illustrations. The spine is worn and the title is illegible. Rubbing and fraying to the edges and at the corners. Page edges browned. Previous owner's name and address in ink on half title page. Tissue paper browned. Light creasing to the corners in a few places and there are a few pages with quite a bit of staining but the pages are generally unmarked. …

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.