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Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
I received your letter, and note its contents. I aint over half pleased, I tell you; I think I have been used scandalous, that's a fact. It warn't the part of a gentleman for to go and pump me arter that fashion, and then go right off and blart it out in print. It was a nasty dirty mean action, and I don't thank you nor the Squire a bit for it. It will be more nor a thousand dollars out of my pocket. There's an eend to the Clock trade now, and a pretty kettle of fish I've made on it, hav'nt I? I shall never hear the last on it, and what am I to say when I go back to the States? I'll take my oath I never said one half the stuff he has set down there.... Now folks say you are a considerable of a candid man, and right up and down in your dealins, and do things above board, handsum - at least so I've hearn tell. That's what I like; I love to deal with such folks. Now spose you make me an offer? You'll find me not very difficult to trade with, and I don't know but I might put off more than half of the books myself, tu. I'll tell you how I'd work it. I'd say, Here's a book they've namesaked arter me, Sam Slick the Clockmaker, but it tante mine, and I can't altogether jist say rightly whose it is.... It wipes up the Blue Noses considerable hard, and don't let off the Yankees so very easy neither, but it's generally allowed to be about the prettiest book ever writ in this country; and although it aint altogether jist gospel what's in it, there's some pretty home truths in it, that's a fact. Whoever wrote it must be a funny feller, too, that's sartin; for there are some queer stories in it that no soul could help larfin at, that's a fact.

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Well, I'd been doin a little business there among the folks, and had jist sot off for the river, mounted on "Old Clay," arter takin a glass of Ezra's most particular handsum Jamaiky, and was trottin off pretty slick, when who should I run agin but Tim Bradley. He is a dreadful ugly cross grained critter, as you een amost ever seed, when he is about half shaved. Well, I stopped short, and says, I, Mr. Bradley, I hope you beant hurt; I'm proper sorry I run agin you, you cant feel uglier than I do about it, I do assure you. Inhoud:Taal: Engels;Bindwijze: Paperback;Aantal pagina's: 124 pagina's;Illustraties: Nee; Betrokkenen:Auteur: Thomas Chandler Haliburton;Uitgever: Independently Published; EAN: Overige kenmerken:Extra groot lettertype: Nee;Thema Subject Code: DC; Engels | Paperback | 9798607699710 | 124 pagina'S.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
The serial publication of The Clockmaker in 1835-36 launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. A broad satire with a garrulous, deceitful American clock-seller, Sam Slick, as its central character, the book was embraced by reviewers and readers internationally. Some Canadian reviewers were often less enthusiastic, however, with one calling Slick’s comical American slang “low, mean, miserable, and witless.” Almost two centuries later The Clockmaker is still central to Canadian literary history—and still highly controversial, particularly for its treatment of women and black Canadians. Richard A. Davies provides a nuanced and illuminating discussion of the controversies about The Clockmaker from 1835 to the present, and of the complex historical and political factors that led to its mixed reception. Historical documents include other writings and speeches by Haliburton, earlier satires of Canadian and American culture, and contemporary reviews.

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Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-02-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Gewöhnlich versandfertig in 6 Tagen. Lieferung von Amazon, Versandkosten für geschätztes Warengewicht: 400g.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.de.
Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-02-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
Reproduction of the original: The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton.