Books by Daniel Pool and Complete Book Reviews

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
Daniel Pool, Author Touchstone Books $16 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-88236-5
This useful guide to Victorian life enlightens on such subjects as grave robbing, debtors' prison and putrid fever. Illustrations. BOMC, QPB and History Book Club alternates. (Jan.)
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Dickens Fur Coat and Charlottes Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists
Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists
Daniel Pool, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-018365-3
""Letting booksellers set prices... just allowed big booksellers to drive the `independents' out of business by underselling them.... it would destroy the country's intellectual life."" A reflection on today's David and Goliath bookselling battles?...
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
Daniel Pool, Author Simon & Schuster $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79337-1
Devotees of Austen, Dickens, the Brontes and the like will enjoy this overview of everyday English life in the era depicted by that nation's greatest novelists. As an aid for readers of vintage fiction, Pool, a lawyer turned freelance writer, has...
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