Hermsprong - Volume III: or, Man as He is Not

By Robert Bage

Book Overview

P-Wave Classics

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916937381
• ISBN13: 9781916937383
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: P-Wave Classics
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

The original Pride and Prejudice

Writing about a generation before Jane Austen, Blage, now known primarily for nothing at all, was an extremely popular and well-thought-of 18th-century writer (he was admiringly written about by Sir Walter Scott--damning praise there, nowadays, but grow up). This is Blage's masterpiece: his last, great, satirical work skewering the mores of British snobbishness (in the person of Lord Grondale)through the caricature of an American "barbarian." The phrase "pride and prejudice" is used throughout in the manner applied by Austen (yes, this is a bucolic, country novel of manners--focusing more on character than plot; oh, with everyone married happily ever after by the end). A treat.