The Siege of the Seven Suitors
by Meredith Nicholson
Illustrated by C. Coles Phillips and Reginald Birch
ILLUSTRATED
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin And Company
Copyright: 1910
--CONDITION--
This book is in good condition. Hardcover. This is an antiquarian book that has had a long and illustrious journey through time. Please take a look at the pictures to ascertain the condition and state of this book. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. The boards are worn along edges and corners and surface rubbed. Hinges tight. Binding sturdy. Text block is crisp and clean with some foxing/staining. Color frontispiece. Illustrated. 400 pages -
--ABOUT THIS ITEM--
The reader with an active imagination will get the most pleasure out of this comedy of mysteries. Above everything, he should not take it seriously; even the author does not seem to do that. It is an impossible story of two sisters who are to be married off by a rich but eccentric maiden aunt. She relegates the younger, Hezekiah, to the background until Cecilia is settled, and being superstitious about the number seven evolves a cheme which is the motif of the story. There is a laughable lover-trust, the pursuit of a smoke-ghost by the chimney doctor, and, incidentally, a pretty little love story, but it is elusive, like the whole plot. Meredith Nicholson (1866–1947) was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a politician, and a diplomat. Largely self-taught, Nicholson began a newspaper career in 1884 at the Indianapolis Sentinel. “We live in an era of horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy, husbandless wives, and wifeless husbands."
Item Dimensions: 7.5 inches x 5.0 inches
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