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What will the world say? : a novel / by Charles Gibbon.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1890 Gibbon
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbon, Charles, 1843-1890.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Yellowbacks.
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1889.
- Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 383, 32 p. ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1890 (Edinburgh : Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.)
- Contents:
- Blackberries
- Robert Marjoribanks
- A suspicious character
- An "admirable Crichton"
- Thinking about it
- Under the willow
- Two women
- Whisperings of war
- The modern genii
- The hermit's cave
- Too late
- In the gloom
- Aladdin's lamp
- Confession
- "Parting is such sweet sorrow"
- The Major's tactics
- Bess Manœvers
- Cockie-leerie
- Coquetting
- "Judge me"
- Marjoribanks puzzled
- "Stubborn fools"
- Romeo and Juliet
- One step farther
- Neck or nothing
- "Wild goose"
- In the moonlight
- The test
- The Major's levee
- Kin, but not kind
- "Queen to move"
- Under the surface
- Another chance
- Cross-firing
- The races
- Nettles
- The bell pit
- Light and shadow
- Miss Janet's wig
- White mice
- "O'er the borders and awa'"
- The surprise
- Hard terms
- "Things are not what they seem"
- Making the best of it
- Repeting at leisure
- The gatekeeper's son
- Alone
- Sackcloth and ashes
- "Home, sweet home"
- The battle of Lacar
- An interesting widow
- Perplexity
- The stranger at the gate
- The "look-out"
- The battle of the heart
- Love is lord of all
- The exiles
- Knighthood.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements appear before and after text. Advertisements after the text dated October, 1889.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: In publisher's binding, paper covered boards; advertisement for Pears soap on back cover; advertisements on pastedowns and flyleaves.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Feb 3 1890 The Athenaeum."
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
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