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Identifier: internationallib09garn (find matches)
Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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F ILLUSTEATIONS. VOLUME IX Ancient French Manuscript (Fourteenth Century)Sir Walter Besant ....Horace Walpole ....Madame de Sevigfne Each in his nariow cell forever laidHenry Fielding ....Tobias Smollett, M.D. .Abftotsford, from the Lake . Voltaire Carnival at Venice .... Jean Jacques Rousseau . John Wesley Preaching to the Indians Oliver Goldsmith .... Dr. Samiiel Johnsdn Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey Dr. Johnsons Home The Laocoon The Vicar and his Wife . The Deserted Village A Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds Death of Thomas Chatterton Joseph JeSerson and William J. Florence Old Weir Bridge, Lakes of Killarney Innisfallen Captain James Cook ....Cain and his Family .... Frontispieceface p. xi PAGE 390139093942397139844007401340154046407141364145414741554170418842094251426943164331433643594372 INTRODUCTIONTO Vol. IX NOVELS THAT HAVE MADE HISTORY WRITTEN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF FAMOUS LITERATURE Sir WALTER BESANT Author of All Sorts and Conditions of Men, &c., t^fc.
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►SIR WALTER BESANT NOVELS WHICH HAVE MADE HISTORY By Sir Walter Besant HiSTOKY is made by the novelist in two ways. Tlie first is bythe presentation of the ideas, laws, manners, customs, religion, pre-judices, and fashions of the time so faithfully that the historian ofthe future can by his help understand the period, and reconstructthe life of that generation. I would instance, as the leadingrepresentatives of this kind of novelist, Defoe, Fielding, andDickens. It would be quite possible, I doubt not, to reconstructa great part of the early eighteenth century without the help ofDefoe: but not the whole. The essayists give us the mannersand the humours of the coffee-house; they also give us an insightinto the mind of scholar, critic, and divine of the period. SwiftsLetters disclose the current talk of. politicians. That mine ofcontemporary manners, The Athenian Oracle, introduces us to thegoverning ideas on religion and morality among the bourgeoisclass. The two worthies, Tom Brown

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