The Miser's Daughter is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1842. It is a historical romance that describes a young man pursuing the daughter of a miserly rich man during the 18th century. Ainsworth prefaces his novel with a discussion of greed: "To expose the folly and wickedness of accumulating wealth for no other purpose than to hoard it up, and to exhibit the utter misery of a being who should thus surrender himself to the dominion of Mammon, is the chief object of these pages." However, ...
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The Miser's Daughter is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1842. It is a historical romance that describes a young man pursuing the daughter of a miserly rich man during the 18th century. Ainsworth prefaces his novel with a discussion of greed: "To expose the folly and wickedness of accumulating wealth for no other purpose than to hoard it up, and to exhibit the utter misery of a being who should thus surrender himself to the dominion of Mammon, is the chief object of these pages." However, Ainsworth does not describe miserliness in any uniform manner. Likewise, the miser, Scarve, is someone who is sometimes depicted in a way that could provoke pity and sometimes depicted as someone to dislike. His death all alone takes a different tone from the rest of The Miser's Daughter, but it is done to reinforce what Ainsworth states in the preface. The Miser's Daughter was intended as a period novel dealing with the 18th century. The subplots allow for the introduction of the period and serve to comment on aspects of London life. The events of allow for the social values held by the different characters to be revealed and discussed. A major aspect of the work deals with inheritance and wills, a legal concept Ainsworth knew of from his background working as a lawyer earlier in his life. The will in the novel allows for the plot to progress while also allowing for a commentary on how the law affects people.
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Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Looks to be around 1900. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/soiling. Bumped corners. Tearing on back strip edge. Binding cracked but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Add this copy of The Miser's Daughter (The novels of William Harrison to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by MadScience Enterprises rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Coalmont, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1902 by Gibbings and co..
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Good. No dust jacket. 2 volume set. Two volumes. Windsor edition (2000 copies printed) A red cloth binding, gilt decoration on front, gilt title. Some wear to ends of spine.
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George Cruikshank. Good. The Miser's Daughter is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth. It is a historical romance that describes a young man pursuing the daughter of a miserly rich man during the 18th century. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with sixteen plates, lacking frontispiece to volume I. In three volumes William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English historical novelist. Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of thirty-nine novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Previous owner's ink inscriptions to titles. Rebacked in cloth bindings preserving original boards and backstrips. Externally, sound but with slight wear to extremities, rubbing and marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound but with one plate absent. Bright but with occasional slight foxing and marks to pages, heaviest to plates with odd tidemarks. Good.