PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE

By: Charles Reade

Copyright: Original was 1870.  This edition is not stated but is circa 1910.

Published By: A.L. Burt Company, Inc.

This antique Hard Cover book (526 pages) is in overall good condition inside and out.  Separation starting at interior covers, but all pages still firmly intact.  No marks in book but pages show some natural age toning.  Cover still displays well, but does show some age.

Extremely collectible in good antique condition!

About Book:

Put Yourself in His Place, by Charles Reade (1870) is a dramatic novel with a purpose. The scene is laid in Hillsborough, an English manufacturing city; and the story relates the struggles of Henry Little, workman and inventor, against the jealousy and prejudice of the trades-unions. Because he is a Londoner, because he is better trained and consequently better paid than the Hillsborough men, because he invents quicker processes and labor-saving devices, he is subjected to a series of persecutions worthy of the Dark Ages, and is ground between the two millstones of Capital and Labor;—for if the workmen are ferocious and relentless, they have learned their villainy from the masters and bettered the instruction. This stern study of social problems, however, is nowhere a tract, but always the story of Henry Little, who is as devoted a lover as he is honest a workman, as thorough a social reformer as a clear, practical thinker, and the hero of as bitter a fight against prejudice, worldly ambition, and unscrupulous rivalry outside the mills, as that which he wages against “The Trades.” Among the notable figures in the book are Squire Raby, Henry’s uncle, a gentleman of the old school; Jael Dence, the country girl, simple, honest, and strong; Grotait, the gentlemanly president of the Saw-Grinders’ Union, with his suave manners and his nickname of “Old Smitem”; and Dr. Amboyne, philanthropist and peacemaker, who maintains that to get on with anybody you must understand him, and when you understand him you will get on with him. His favorite motto is the title of the book. Like all of Charles Reade’s stories, ‘Put Yourself in His Place’ has a wealth of dramatic incident, and moves with dash and vigor.

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