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A friend of both the Marxes and the Gladstones, a lovable but preposterous figure, with a quiverful of children and advice to anyone who would listen, Martin Tupper was in many ways the quintessential Victorian. In 1842 he wrote the first of a series entitled "Proverbial Philosophy", a moral self-improvement manual, full of hearty evangelism - somewhere between "The Road Less Travelled" and "The Little Book of Calm" - which became a multi-million bestseller. Few people today have heard of Tupper but in his own time his name was a household word. Know Tupper, know something interesting, richly comic and telling about Victorian taste and sensibility.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller: Martin Tupper's "Proverbial Philosophy"
• Author: Brian Thompson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781904095170
• ISBN: 9781904095170
• ID: 06612355
• Publisher: Short Books Ltd
• Weight: 120 g
• Dimensions: 183 × 127 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. July 2002

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