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Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"
Av Tobias Smollett, Byron Gassman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1769 kr
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The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted …
Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Av Tobias Smollett, O M Brack Jr.
Häftad, 1993
991 kr
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June 1771, three months before the author's death. A classic in the history of the English novel, it takes the form of a collection of letters written by various members of Mr. Matthew …
Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
Av François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, Leslie A. Chilton m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1582 kr
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The Adventures of Telemachus is the first critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon's 1699 "mirror for princes," written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV.Both in its original French and its many translations, The Adventures of Telemachus …
Adventures of Roderick Random
Av Tobias Smollett, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1769 kr
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This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett’s first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also, in its time, the chief rival to Henry Fielding’s comic novel Tom Jones.Surging with verbal, sexual, …
History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, O M Brack Jr.
Inbunden, 2003
2135 kr
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This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory …
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Av John Hawkins, O M Brack Jr.
Inbunden, 2009
1201 kr
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This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, …
Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Av Alain René Le Sage, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1910 kr
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Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), acknowledges the influence of Alain René Le Sage’s L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715–35 in four volumes) on his work. By far the most successful of “useful and entertaining” romances, Smollett …
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Av John Hawkins, O M Brack Jr.
Häftad, 2013
613 kr
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This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, …
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Av Tobias Smollett, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2383 kr
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This picaresque tale, first published in 1751, was Tobias Smollett’s second novel. Following the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, the novel is written as a series of brief adventures with every chapter typically describing a new escapade. The novel begins with …
Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Av Alain René Le Sage, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
948 kr
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Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), acknowledges the influence of Alain René Le Sage’s L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715–35 in four volumes) on his work. By far the most successful of “useful and entertaining” romances, Smollett …
Adventures of Roderick Random
Av Tobias Smollett, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
878 kr
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This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett’s first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also, in its time, the chief rival to Henry Fielding’s comic novel Tom Jones.Surging with verbal, sexual, …
Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
Av François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, Leslie A. Chilton m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
768 kr
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The Adventures of Telemachus is the first critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon's 1699 "mirror for princes," written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV.Both in its original French and its many translations, The Adventures of Telemachus …
Devil upon Crutches
Av Alain René Le Sage, Leslie A. Chilton m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
784 kr
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This is the first reprinting since the eighteenth century—and the first scholarly edition—of Tobias Smollett’s translation of The Devil upon Crutches. First published in France in 1707 as Le Diable boiteux, Alain René Le Sage’s novel relates the picaresque wanderings of Asmodeus, a refined, likable …
History and Adventures of an Atom
Av Tobias Smollett, O M Brack Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
784 kr
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In The History and Adventures of an Atom, a London haberdasher relates extraordinary tales of ancient Japan as dictated to him by an omniscient atom that has lived within the bodies of great figures of state. Intended “for the instruction of British ministers,” the work is a savage allegory of …
History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, O M Brack Jr.
Häftad, 2014
1357 kr
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This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory …
Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Av Tobias Smollett, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
784 kr
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This new edition brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. No annotated edition of the work existed before the second half of the twentieth century, and this comprehensive edition by Robert Folkenflik and Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick features …
Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"
Av Tobias Smollett, Byron Gassman m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
878 kr
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The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted …
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Av Tobias Smollett, Alexander Pettit m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
2231 kr
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This picaresque tale, first published in 1751, was Tobias Smollett’s second novel. Following the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, the novel is written as a series of brief adventures with every chapter typically describing a new escapade. The novel begins with …
Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Av Tobias Smollett, O M Brack Jr.
Inbunden, 2017
1910 kr
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June 1771, three months before the author's death. A classic in the history of the English novel, it takes the form of a collection of letters written by various members of Mr. Matthew …
Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 17
Volume 17: A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, Or Essay on Man (A Translation from the French)
Av Samuel Johnson, O. M. Brack Jr.
Inbunden, 2005
1483 kr
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The first scholarly edition of Samuel Johnson’s translation of Jean-Pierre de Crousaz’s commentary on An Essay on Man In 1736, Jean-Pierre de Crousaz published his Commentaire sur la traduction en vers de M. Abbé Du Resnel, de l’Essai de M. Pope sur l’homme, a critique of Alexander Pope’s Essay on …
Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13
Debates in Parliament
Av Samuel Johnson, Thomas Kaminski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
4509 kr
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Samuel Johnson’s “Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia”—for the first time, presented exactly as published From July 1741 to March 1744, Samuel Johnson composed speeches based on the actual debates in Parliament for publication in the Gentleman’s Magazine. Because it was then illegal to print …
Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19
Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends
Av Samuel Johnson, O. M. Brack Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1433 kr
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Early biographies and other life writing by Samuel Johnson, performing in his favorite literary genre Well before publishing the Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians …
Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 20
Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings
Av Samuel Johnson, O. M. Brack Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1358 kr
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A collection of the prefaces, proposals, dedications, appeals, and other works that Samuel Johnson wrote for friends and acquaintances The English critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. This volume, the twentieth of the Yale …
