She Stoops to Conquer by hotsell Oliver Goldsmith

Title: She Stoops to Conquer
Author/Editor: Goldsmith, Oliver
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date: 1991
Format: Paperback
Condition: Good

Condition Description:
Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 3" x 4" octavo, 333 pages, printed for German Bookseller C.F. Osiander of Tubingen, Germany, 1832. 35 Illustrations. In original boards. The only known copy is in the Bibliothèque de Genève. An early edition of the classic, in astonishing condition given the quality of production. One small former owner's name in fountain ink, otherwise unmarked. Slight foxing to pages. This is a wonderful early edition, 1832, of the classic printed for the German marketplace. Quite rare. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Book Overview:
This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A number of delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the mating strategies of both Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude happily. Along the way, there is an hotsell abundance of merry mix-ups, racy dialogue and sly satire of the sentimental comedies of Goldsmith's day. The extraordinary humor and humanity with which Goldsmith invested this play have made it one of the most read, performed, and studied of all English comedies. It is now available in this inexpensive Dover edition, based on the text of the fourth edition, published in the year of the play's first staging.