{"product_id":"9781486444519","title":"Wenderholme - A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire - The Original Classic Edition","description":"Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Wenderholme - A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, which is now, at last, again available to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGet the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Wenderholme - A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Wenderholme - A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook inside the book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wish may seem hard and unchristian,—it may appear, to readers who have had no experience in the delivery of letters, thatPg 2 to desire the death of a fellow-creature merely because he happened to be called Isaac Ogden implied a fearful degree of natural malevolence; but the business of a postman cultivates an eagerness to get rid of letters, whereof the lay mind has no adequate conception; and when a bachelor Isaac Ogden got a letter from an affectionate wife, or an Isaac Ogden, who never owed a penny, received a pressing dun from an impatient and exasperated creditor, these epistles were returned upon the postman's hands, and he became morbidly anxious to get rid of them, or 'shut on 'em,' as he himself expressed it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...If Jacob had been an artful advocate of his own cause, he would have cited one of those instances unhappily too numerous during the last few months, when he had been severely punished on the slightest possible pretexts, or even without any pretext whatever; but as recent events occupy the largest space in our recollection, and as all troubles diminish by a sort of perspective according to the length of time that has happened since their occurrence, Jacob, of course, instanced a beating that he had received that very morning, and of which certain portions of his bodily frame, by their uncommon stiffness and soreness, still kept up the most lively remembrance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout Philip Gilbert Hamerton, the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2 His first literary attempt, a volume of poems, was unsuccessful, leading him to devote himself for a time entirely to landscape painting; he camped out in the Scottish Highlands, where he eventually rented the former island of Inistrynich in Loch Awe, upon which he settled with his wife, a Frenchwoman, in 1858.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovering after a time that he was more suited to art criticism than painting, he moved to the area his wife came from, in France, where he produced his Painter's Camp in the Highlands (1863), which was very successful and prepared the way for his standard work on Etching and Etchers (1866).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emereo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136404504816,"sku":"9781486444519","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486444519_p0.jpg?v=1763635052","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486444519","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}