2002
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
126
Number of Pages
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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Number of Ratings
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Author
Brian Thompson
Author · 10 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. He read English at Cambridge. Since 1973 he has written for a living as a radio and television playwright and a documentary film maker. He is also the author of several acclaimed biographies: A Monkey Amongst Crocodiles, Imperial Vanities and The Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller.
