Handley Cross (1951)

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Handley Cross (1951)
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Handley Cross (1951)

R.S. Surtees
Edition year 1951
Binding Cloth
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 671
Dimensions 22.5 × 15.7 cm

Edition details

Handley Cross by R.S. Surtees. with 16 colour prints by John Leech, hand-coloured by Maud Johnson. Bound in red cloth. White dust jacket. 671pp. 22.5x15.7cm.

About the book

Handley Cross by R. Surtees is a lively comic sporting novel centred on the unforgettable John Jorrocks, the larger-than-life grocer and enthusiastic fox hunter. Having risen to the position of Master of Foxhounds, Jorrocks throws himself wholeheartedly into the responsibilities and pleasures of the hunting field. Surtees combines colourful descriptions of horses, hounds and country sport with sharp satire of Victorian society. Through Jorrocks and the eccentric characters surrounding him, the novel pokes fun at social ambition, sporting pretension and class while providing an entertaining portrait of nineteenth-century hunting life.

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