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A Dateless Bargain (Paperback)
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A Dateless Bargain (Paperback)
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List price R399
Loot Price R338
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A Dateless Bargain (1887) is a novel by Catherine Louis Pirkis.
Known for her contribution of Victorian detective fiction, Pirkis
wrote over a dozen novels and countless stories throughout her
brief career as a professional writer. Among them, A Dateless
Bargain is an undervalued study of family, class, and trauma that
will be of particular interest to scholars of English aristocracy
and the rise of the women's rights movement. At their enormous
estate in Gloucestershire, Mab and Joyce-daughters of the immensely
wealthy Irving Shenstone-are decorating their father's study in
anticipation of his arrival by train. With the help of their
gardener, they obtain hundreds of flowers to garnish his desk and
bookshelves. Amid the excitement, Mab falls asleep and has a dream
where her father stands before her. Unbeknownst to the girls and
their mother, Irving Shenstone disembarked from his train at five
minutes to twelve, slipped while stepping onto the platform, and
struck his head, dying instantly. When the news reaches them, their
idyllic life is shattered in an instant, forcing Joyce and Mab to
grow up long before their time. A Dateless Bargain is a novel of
romance, fortune, and tragedy by a relatively unknown writer of
Victorian fiction whose work deserves reassessment by readers and
critics alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Catherine Louis Pirkis' A
Dateless Bargain is a classic of Victorian English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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