Cambridge

By Tuker Mildred Anna Rosalie and Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker

A tender and lucid portrait of scholarly life, Cambridge invites you to step into a quiet, human world where study, friendship, and daily routine become a gentle, revealing drama. Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker's studies of 19th century academic life unfold through wit, observation, and a steady eye for the small wonders of university town life. This is classic British prose at its finest: a carefully curated prose anthology that treats everyday life with warmth and understated humour, yet bears the weight of memory and social change. It is a book for literary study readers and casual readers alike, a work that reads as both companion and artefact. Tiny scenes and portraits accumulate into a mosaic of Cambridge England, revealing faculty corridors, lecture rooms, shared meals, and the rhythms of term-time life. The volume stands as a note in time on public life, and a reminder of why nineteenth-century prose continues to charm, inform, and instruct. Its enduring significance lies in its precise voice, its humane observations, and its place in the lineage of great British writers who shaped how we see universities and their people. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this isn't merely a reprint. It is a collector's item and a cultural treasure-restored for today's readers and for future generations, a welcome addition to any antique book collection, or a thoughtful inclusion on a Cambridge setting course reading list.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354542883
• ISBN13: 9789354542886
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"