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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0575034173
- ISBN 13 9780575034174
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages168
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Mr. Trill in Hades
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Book Description Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex Library Book with usual stamps and stickers. A slight tan to the page edges. Seller Inventory # wbb0018425826
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Mr. Trill in Hades and Other Stories
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Book Description Hardcover. First edition. 1st edition. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Seller Inventory # 83500
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Book Description Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine, Sl Spine Head Crush/Near Fine, Sl Edgecrumple. 1st Edition. Short stories about teachers and pupils, those entities ordained by the Fates to be the bane of each other's lives. Jacket by Pat Doyle. A full condition report for this book is available on request. Seller Inventory # 001835
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. London. 1984. Gollancz. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0575034173. 160 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Pat Doyle. keywords: Literature Scotland . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Not, be it noted, in Hell: as he lies dying, Mr Trill, a classics master by profession and inclination, sees himself being ferried across the Styx to the appropriate land of shades. What he sees and hears there of his heroes and heroines is deeply disillusioning: Agamemnon and Achilles revealed as simple-minded braggarts, Hector as lusting for Helen, Ulysses as treacherous and false. Encounters with Orpheus and Sisyphus, with Dido and her chronicler Vergil, prove even more disturbing. Retreats into memories of his own pasthis bullied boyhood, his fear of womenprovide no comfort. He begins to question even his chosen career and its values. When offered the alternatives of an eternity of academe or a return to the world in some different guise, he opts for a street corner, selling newspapers. Are we to take this ambivalent conclusion to a strikingly imaginative novella as a rejection or an assertion of values? The answer is perhaps to be found in the six shorter stories that accompany it. In varying ways, these too are all of them reflections in a schoolmaster's eye. Some- times we see the teachers, sharply and lucidly, through the eyes of the children; sometimes the children, baffling and unreachable, through the eyes of a teacher. A boy observes with puzzled detachment the end of a secret romance between two of his teachers (The Ring), A class plays along with a teacher whose obsessive horror of war leads him far from the subject he should be teaching (Greater Love). A teacher who despairs of getting any response from his backward class at last finds a way of reaching them (The Play). In each story an essential theme is the bond, however unacknowledged, between [please turn to back flap the generations. On the other hand, In the School turns upon a lost, embittered youth's intention to destroy his school, and this ends in a scene of apocalyptic terror which truly introduces us to the Hell which is so remote from Mr Trill's vision. Iain Crichton Smith once again proves himself to be a challenging writer who, however delicate, sympathetic and humane his approach, and however subtle his Ironies, is confronting vital and timeless issues. inventory #639. Seller Inventory # z639
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Owner's name inscribed on front free endpaper. Nice bright copy with a bit of speckling to the top edge of the page block. Not ex-library. Language: eng Language: eng. Seller Inventory # ABE-17682587960
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex library copy with paper labels on f/ep, ink stamps on title page, otherwise a good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper. Contains the title story and six others, all dealing with schoolmasters and schools. The stories are: ''What to do about Ralph?'', ''The Ring'', ''Greater Love'', ''The Snowballs'', ''In the School'', and the title story ''Mr Trill in Hades''. 168pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 002248
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Book Description First Edition. Novella plus several short stories by the Scottish poet and novelist. With the ownership signature (dated 1984) of the Scottish photographer and friend of Joan eardley to the front endpaper. VG in VG dustjacket the laminate of which is slightly crinkled to the spine. Seller Inventory # 10601
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "For Chris, with best wises, from Iain, 1984." A short short stories collection. ISBN: 0575034173 Pages: 168 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Excellent condition. Signedes. Seller Inventory # C84307
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