Author: PORTER, JANE
Title: Thaddeus of Warsaw
Description: New York, NY: John Lovell, 1845. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The Green book covers have embossed and decorated covers with gilt and black lettering. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "Thaddeus of Warsaw is an 1803 novel written by Jane Porter. It comprises four volumes. The story was derived from eyewitness accounts of British soldiers and Polish refugees fleeing the failed revolts against the foreign occupation of Poland in the 1790s. It was thought by Olga S. Phillips (1940) , author of Isaac Nathan's biography, that the character of Thaddeus was based on Nathan's father Menachem Mona Polack (Moses Monash the Pole) who was thought to be the illegitimate son of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski and his Jewish mistress Elzbieta Szydlowska. Phillips claims that Jane Porter used to call Isaac Nathan 'Thaddeus' when touching his face as a child. The work is a hybrid: the first third relates developments and battles within Poland, the remainder of the books serve as a novel of manners describing how Thaddeus, having befriended a British soldier in the Russian army and learned from his mother that he himself is half English, flees to London to seek help for his cause among the British. He sells art, falls in love, and finds (and restores the honor of) his long-lost father. Porter wrote that her goal was "to exhibit so truly heroic and enduring a portrait of what every Christian man ought to be"; she felt obliged to look at the past and to Poland because such people were "extinct" within Britain in her time. Written during a lull in the Napoleonic Wars, Thaddeus of Warsaw includes numerous speeches and scenes arguing for a spirited defense of constitutional government against absolutism and criticizes the perceived dilettantism of the English aristocracy." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Jane Porter Military Fiction Poland Polish History Europe Historical Fiction
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Title: Thaddeus of Warsaw
Description: New York, NY: John Lovell, 1845. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The Green book covers have embossed and decorated covers with gilt and black lettering. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "Thaddeus of Warsaw is an 1803 novel written by Jane Porter. It comprises four volumes. The story was derived from eyewitness accounts of British soldiers and Polish refugees fleeing the failed revolts against the foreign occupation of Poland in the 1790s. It was thought by Olga S. Phillips (1940) , author of Isaac Nathan's biography, that the character of Thaddeus was based on Nathan's father Menachem Mona Polack (Moses Monash the Pole) who was thought to be the illegitimate son of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski and his Jewish mistress Elzbieta Szydlowska. Phillips claims that Jane Porter used to call Isaac Nathan 'Thaddeus' when touching his face as a child. The work is a hybrid: the first third relates developments and battles within Poland, the remainder of the books serve as a novel of manners describing how Thaddeus, having befriended a British soldier in the Russian army and learned from his mother that he himself is half English, flees to London to seek help for his cause among the British. He sells art, falls in love, and finds (and restores the honor of) his long-lost father. Porter wrote that her goal was "to exhibit so truly heroic and enduring a portrait of what every Christian man ought to be"; she felt obliged to look at the past and to Poland because such people were "extinct" within Britain in her time. Written during a lull in the Napoleonic Wars, Thaddeus of Warsaw includes numerous speeches and scenes arguing for a spirited defense of constitutional government against absolutism and criticizes the perceived dilettantism of the English aristocracy." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Jane Porter Military Fiction Poland Polish History Europe Historical Fiction
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 44999
- Book number: 44999
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