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About this title: While Englishmen were dying by the thousands on the battlefields of Europe, their friends and relations on the home front were reading books of humor, tales of espionage and adventure, colorful romances, and historical swashbucklers. Harold Orel's penetrating book explains why escapist fiction dominated the popular literary market in England throughout the Great War. A large factor, he shows, was the view of publishers, reviewers, booksellers, libraries, literary groups, and the general reading public that escapist fiction was a useful diversion from the inescapable horrors of war. Orel ...
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Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918
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Orel, Harold
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13: 9780813117898
ISBN: 0813117895
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0813117895. 249 pp. Index. Very good condition book and dustjacket. Black hardcovers near fine, very clean, little rubbing to extremeties. Small tear to front endpaper at gutter, else interior in fine condition: crisp, clean and tight. Dustjacket very good, in protective plastic. Nice copy.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
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Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918
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Orel, Harold
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, KY
Date Published: 1992
Description: First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper. Book is a nice clean copy, like new. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners. read more
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Harold Orel
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780813117898
ISBN: 0813117895
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918
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Orel, Harold
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University Press Of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13: 9780813117898
ISBN: 0813117895
Description: VG/VG. 0813117895. Head of spine slightly bumped, binding tight and interior excellent.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 249 pages; Studio sml black/gold fictcat. read more
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Popular Fiction in England 1914-1918
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Orel, Harold
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Kentucky
Date Published: 1992
Description: 8vo. VG/VG. glossy green dj and spine w/ white lettering. boards have minor shelfwear. dj has some shelfwear w/ light chipping along the head and some light smudging. Literary Criticism. read more
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Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918
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Orel, Harald
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13: 9780813117898
ISBN: 0813117895
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Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918
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Orel, Harold
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: University of Kentucky Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13: 9780813117898
ISBN: 0813117895
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Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918
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Orel, Harold
Binding: hardback
Publisher: University Press Of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13: 9780813117898
ISBN: 0813117895
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 0813117895. read more
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