The Big House of Inver

Somerville, Edith; Ross, Martin

ISBN 10: 1899047484 / ISBN 13: 9781899047482

Published by A. & A. Farmar, 1999

About this Item

Glued spine firm, smooth, and uncreased; pages tight, clean, fresh, square, and unmarked; introduction by Gifford Lewis; very minor edge wear; virtually as-new, certainly unread; 4 ¼" x 7"; 280 pages; cover design by Liam Furlong incorporating William Sadleir's "A View from Killua" (Detail).

Seller Inventory # 002448

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Big House of Inver
• Publisher: A. & A. Farmar
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899047484
• ISBN 13: 9781899047482
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

This novel, according to Somerville, "concerns the history of one of those minor dynasties that, in Ireland, have risen, and rules, and rioted, and crashed in ruins." "Somerville and Ross know their world as well as Jane Austen knew hers." John Bayley.

About the Author

Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were second cousins born to distant branches of a prominent Anglo-Irish Ascendancy family. They lived together at the Somerville home for most of their adult lives, traveling frequently to Europe and collaborating on numerous books and articles. Their most famous novel, The Real Charlotte, was published in 1894. After Ross's death in 1915, Somerville continued to write and publish under both names, claiming that the partnership endured beyond the grave.