Glances Back Through Seventy Years 2 Volume Paperback Set
Glances Back Through Seventy Years 2 Volume Paperback Set
£65.99
GBPThis autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820–1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. He later became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola which challenged strict Victorian laws on obscenity and led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His book is a fascinating blend of political, social and personal history, providing an insight into the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century Europe.
Product details
February 2010Multiple copy pack
9781108009317
909 pages
323 × 250 × 70 mm
1.8kg
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume I:
- 1. When George IV was king
- 2. School days
- 3. The reform frenzy and the rick-burnings
- 4. The flood of penny literature
- 5. Songs and slang phrases
- 6. Early pencil and graver work
- 7. Some struggling artists
- 8. 'Heads of the people' and 'Illustrious Shakspere'
- 9. Ribald newspapers and their editors
- 10. A Derbyshire excursion
- 11. Alfred Bunn and Alfred Crowquill
- 12. The origin of the 'Illustrated London News'
- 13. 'The Pictorial Times'
- 14. The Chevalier Wikoff and his capture of an heiress
- 15. My recollections of W. M. Thackeray
- 16. Disraeli's friendly overtures to 'Punch'
- 17. 'Pasquin' and the 'puppet show'
- 18. A fictitious goldfinder's diary
- 19. A theft from Napoleon's privy purse
- 20. Macaulay's speeches
- 21. The Palmer trial
- Volume II:
- 22. The French detective and his smart subordinate
- 23. An expedition to Homburg
- 24. The paper duty agitation
- 25. On board the Great Eastern during the explosion
- 26. A suspicious fire at Campden House
- 27. The Shakspeare tercentenary committee and Mr Thackeray
- 28. French apartments
- 29. Odd ways of getting a living in Paris
- 30. New Year's Day in Paris
- 31. European potentates in Paris
- 32. At the prefecture of police
- 33. With the court at Compiègne
- 34. On and about the boulevards
- 35. In Brittany
- 36. The Italian colony
- 37. Boulevardian journalists
- 38. In the vineyards of the Médoc
- 39. A conflagration among the Bordeaux shipping
- 40. The Pantin tragedy
- 41. At Troppman's execution
- 42. In the wake of Rory of the Hills.
