Fine dark green cloth, spine slightly askew, gilt lettering and border very bright on spine, 279 lightly browned pages. DJ price-clipped, glossy beneath mylar with beautiful illustrated front with colorful lettering by Mark Wilkinson, black spine and back with praise from The Financial Times, The Evening News and The Sunday Times for Gordon's "The Private Life of Florence Nightingale." DJ has light short scratch near middle back. Near Very Fine DJ/Near Very Good book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Private Life of Jack the Ripper: a Novel

Publisher

Heinemann, London

Publication Date

1980

Language

English

ISBN 10

0434302562

ISBN 13

9780434302567

Binding

Cloth

Illustrator

Wilkinson, Mark

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Synopsis

In this remarkably shrewd and witty novel, Victorian London is brought to life with compelling authority. Richard Gordon wonderfully conveys the boisterous, often lusty panorama of life for the very poor—hard, menial work; violence; prostitution; disease. The Private Life of Jack the Ripper is a masterly evocation of the practice of medicine in 1888, the year of Jack the Ripper. It is also a dark and disturbing medical mystery. Why were his victims so silent? And why was there so little blood?

About the Author

Richard Gordon is best-known for his hilarious 'Doctor' books and the long-running television series they inspired. Born in 1921, he qualified as a doctor and went on to work as an anaesthetist at the famous St Bartholomew's Hospital, before a spell as a ship's surgeon and then as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. In 1952, before leaving medical practice in 1952 to take up writing full time and embarking upon the 'Doctor' series. Many of these are based on these experiences in the medical profession and are all told with the rye wit and candid humour that have become his hallmark. They have proved enduringly successful and have been adapted into both film and TV. His 'Great Medical Mysteries' and 'Great Medical Discoveries' concern the stranger aspects of the medical profession, whilst 'The Private Life' series takes a deeper look at individual figures within their specific medical and historical setting. Clearly an incredibly versatile writer, he will, however, always be best known for his comic tone coupled with remarkable powers of observation inherent in the hilarious 'Doctor' series. 'Mr Gordon is in his way the P G Wodehouse of the general hospitals' - The Daily Telegraph. 'I wish some more solemn novelists had half Mr Gordon's professional skills' - Julian Symonds, Sunday Times

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