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Warner, Charles Dudley : A Little Journey in the World

Harper and Brothers, New York, 1899

Biographical edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 5 3/8" x 7 1/2." 396 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece portrait of the author, complete. Six additional pages of advertisements in the back for other books. Authors featured in the ads, in addition to Charles Dudley Warner, are Richard Harding Davis, H. G. Wells, William Dean Howells, and Brander Matthews. Former ownership inscription on front pastedown in black ink: "Mary E. Weddell." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight corner and edge wear. A Fine copy. Referenced from the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 21211: "Introductory sketch pp. iii-v" original to this edition. Quoted from the Introductory Sketch: "This story is an attempt to trace the demoralization in a woman's soul of certain well-known influences in our existing social life. In no other way could certain phases of our society be made to appear so distinctly as when reflected in the once pure mirror of a woman's soul. The character of Margaret is the portrait of no one woman. But it was suggested by the career of two women (among others less marked) who had begun life with the highest ideals, which had been gradually eaten away and destroyed by 'prosperous' marriages and association with unscrupulous methods of acquiring money. The deterioration was gradual. The women were in all outward conduct unchanged, the conventionalities of life were maintained, the graces were not lost, the observances of the duties of charities and of religion were even emphasized, but worldliness had eaten the heart out of them, and they were 'dead souls.' The tragedy of the withered life was a thousand-fold enhanced by the external show of prosperous respectability.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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