1890-1902 Poems Volume I, Two Years Ago Volume I, & Yeast: A Problem

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the Church of England, university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. This set includes: Poems, 1890. Volume one, The Saint's Tragedy only. Two Years Ago, 1901. Volume one only. In the last of his reforming novels, Kingsley describes the descent of cholera upon the little West Country fishing village of Aberalva and attacks the poor sanitary conditions that allowed it to take hold. Yeast: A Problem, 1902. This was Kingsley's first novel, an attack on Roman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement, as well as being an attack on celibacy, bad landlords, and bad sanitation. Bound by J. & E. Bumpus, Oxford Street.