Domestic Manners of the Americans
- Editore:
Penguin Books Ltd
- Collana:
- Penguin Classics
- EAN:
9780140435610
- ISBN:
0140435611
- Pagine:
- 416
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Domestic Manners of the Americans
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to England Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, Domestic Manners of the Americans is a vivid and hugely witty satirical account of a nation and was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.
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