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Selling over 165 million books since its inception in 2003, ThriftBooks is considered one of the largest sellers of used books in the United States and has seven warehouses across the United States. [5] ThriftBooks was founded in the summer of 2003 by Daryl Butcher and Jason Meyer.
The company's withdrawn books were offered for sale at £5 for a hundred volumes in 1860. [ 8 ] In the Victorian era, the cost of novels exceeded the means of most middle-class Englishmen, [ 12 ] so popular lending-libraries like Mudie's had a strong influence over the public — and thus over authors and publishers.
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Pages in category "Victorian novels" The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adam Bede;
Adams, James Eli et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Victorian era (4 vol, Groiler 2003); online vol 1-2-3-4; comprehensive coverage in 500 articles by 200 experts Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt ...
Charlotte Eliza Lawson Riddell (nee Cowan; 30 September 1832 – 24 September 1906), known also as Mrs J. H. Riddell, and by her pen name F. G. Trafford, was a popular and influential Irish-born writer in the Victorian period.
In the introduction to her bibliography of American conduct books published before 1900, Sarah E. Newton defines the conduct book as . a text that is intended for an inexperienced young adult or other youthful reader, that defines an ethical, Christian-based code of behavior, and that normally includes gender role definitions. Thus "conduct ...
The Pearl's serial novel Lady Pokingham, in which a consumptive invalid recounts her sexual adventures from a wheelchair, has been noted for its depiction of transience, bodily decay, and death, which thus provides counter-evidence to the idea advanced by Steven Marcus that Victorian pornography portrays a pornotopia.