Items related to A World Too Wide
This saga is set against the background of the industrial revolution and describes the love affair between the neglected son of a businessman and the daughter of a London prostitute. The author also wrote "Paths of Fortune".
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly:
The Byford family was introduced in Paths of Fortune , which followed the growing up of Kate and Sophy, and their feckless younger brother, in rural Regency England. Now it is 1812; Kate has married a wealthy American and lives in Virginia; Sophy, wife of James Fraser, a neophyte inventor working on the prototype of the steamship, leaves her young son in England to join her husband in New York. The Napoleonic war results in the blockade of the port of New York, putting Sophy in financial and physical peril. Meanwhile, Charity Michaelmas, a former servant now rising in the demimonde as a wealthy prostitute, seeks to protect her daughter, the unacknowledged offspring of the Byfords' brother. The many strands in this carefully told, at times slow-paced story create a vivid pattern unified in the final chapters, when a predictable romance comes to fruition for the next generation.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal:
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This overlong saga is indeed "a world too wide" and a disappointing sequel to Paths of Fortune (LJ 8/85). Beginning in 1812, it loosely covers about 20 years in the lives of Sophy and James Fraser in England and Sophy's sister Kate and husband, Joseph Lee, in America. It also follows Georgiana Michaelmas, the illegitimate daughter of Katy and Sophy's brother and a former servant, now a well-to-do prostitute. In between are tucked snippets of the Napoleonic wars, a shipbuilding venture turned bad, postwar America, much dashing from continent to continent, and characters who strut and fret for a moment on the page only to disappear. A love interest holds momentary attention, but it comes after so much uneven meandering that most readers won't persevere. Perhaps for large collections owning the earlier volume.
- Joan Hinkemeyer, Englewood P.L., Col.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Joan Hinkemeyer, Englewood P.L., Col.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0006173799
- ISBN 13 9780006173793
- BindingPaperback
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
A World Too Wide
Published by
Fontana Press 24/08/1989
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0006173799
ISBN 13: 9780006173793
Used
Softcover
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . Seller Inventory # 7719-9780006173793
Buy Used
US$ 5.51
Convert currency
Stock Image
A World Too Wide
Published by
Fontana Press 24/08/1989
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0006173799
ISBN 13: 9780006173793
Used
Softcover
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780006173793
Buy Used
US$ 5.51
Convert currency