Book - Novel, Payn, James, Less black than we're painted : in three volumes : Vol. III, 1878

Physical description

303 p.

Inscriptions & markings

'Linton Free Library' inscribed in pencil across title page.
Label pasted to front cover indicating book was previously in another collection: "Mullen's Library, Collins Street, Melbourne".

Summary

A young man falls in love with the stepdaughter of his father's gamekeeper.
“The cheerfullest, springiest, oddest book conceivable; and it overflows with humour and rings with merriment”. (From 1878 review in The Spectator.)

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