The Macaroni Parson. The Life Of The Unfortunate Doctor Dodd

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Hutchinson Of London
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1975
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Jacket is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Nicknamed 'The Macaroni Parson' Because Of His Dandyish Dress,was One Of The Most Popular Preachers Of The Eighteenth Century.

Publishers Description: This book can be read on different levels: as a bizarre picture of social life at a time when the Church was in its darkest period of lethargy and craft; as a tragi-comedy of a man who, in a profession supposed to devoted to things of the spirit, was obsessed with personal ambitions and status symbols; or as a carefully documented history of the event which started the long process of liberalisation of our laws, including the whole campaign against capital punishment, that has lasted down to the present.

ISBN: 0091151708