Marner Nigel (5 results)

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Gift message to ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 497pp, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0863326846.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean blue bds with gilt title to spine. Usual library marks. Bindings tight. Interior very good and clean. Unclipped dustjacket in clear protective sleeve in VG condition with lib. sticker to bottom spine end. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling and banding to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Sussex in seventeen eighty four - a time when southern England is diving into deep recession. Tall and handsome, forty year old Jacob Marner has always been an inveterate, unbridled womaniser, but after years spent as a libertine - a wine swilling, swashbuckling seafarer, he has only comparatively recently repented, settled down, and taken on the mantle of a devout Quaker and family man. Now losing his job, he despairs for himself, his children, and his heavily pregnant wife Sarah, and this loss of basic security severely tempts him to look again for escape in his old ways. Then out of the blue comes a managerial job he can't refuse. It means giving up the family home and moving 'lock stock and barrel' to Copyhold - a smallholding in the Sussex village of Fernhurst. Here, the village economy is still in the main dependant on the blast furnaces of its declining iron industry. Its 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' for Jacob. The new homestead is deplorably dilapidated, and worse - he quickly learns that his predecessor in the job, having deliberately abused and provoked the workers, was violently murdered. Jacob has 'burnt his boats' and is now to take on a violently militant labour force. However, he will soon find several of the local ladies eager to favour a mature and attractive male coming new to the village. Taking up his new post, Jacob barely escapes a murderous attempt on his life and is laid low with serious injuries. This attack shocks his wife and her pregnancy is aborted. As Jacob slowly recovers, the temptresses start to feature in his new life, together with Ben Swift - a shipmate from his seafaring days, who graphically 'tells all' regarding Jacob's past. His daughter is raped, his son is accused of sexual perversion, but eventually, Jacob, by and large, gains control and respect of the workforce. And so, aids the ironmaster in salvaging the whole enterprise. But success is short lived, for a disastrous flood devastates the water driven blast furnace complex, causing horrific loss of life and deprivation in the local community. Nevertheless, the fatal knifing of his teenage son is a final adversity - inflicted on Jacob by a local woman's husband, driven to murderous rage on finding the boy attempting to rape his wife. Some wit, a deal of humour, some anguish and pain, sinful lusting and fornication, a tapestry woven by mainly ordinary folk - little has changed over the centuries in the life of such communities. Ref III 7.