The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate
$43.54
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
12 December 2023
Summary
1848, the spectre of revolution stalks London…
“The story of the death of Sir Martin Malprelate acquired, from its earliest telling, a phantasmagorical quality, shrouding the violence of the assault in an embellishment of diabolic spectres and uncanny mystery.”
Struck down in a Camden street, the railway magnate never lived to see his dream of a line from London to Middlemarch. But who was to blame? An angry mob? Or were the witnesses who swore he was struck by a demonic train…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915523020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915523028 |
| Author: | Adam Roberts |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Datura Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
Adam Roberts
ADAM ROBERTS is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University. He is a leading authority on the works of Charles Dickens and has also published numerous books and academic studies on, amongst others, Browning, Tennyson, Wells, Walter Scott and Coleridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice President of the H.G. Wells Society and the author of more than 20 critically acclaimed SF novels and a number of non-fiction books on the genre. He lives to the West of London with his wife and two children.
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