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Large Format for easy reading. The first novel from the author of Vanity Fair, written as a response to the abuse of sentiment in popular fiction and deals with a woman who murders her husband.
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Sheldon F. Goldfarb is an independent scholar who received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Edgar F. Harden is Professor of English, Simon Fraser University. Peter L. Shillingsburg is Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Lamar University.
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At that famous period of history, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- writing, Oliver-Cromwellising, Stuartising, and Orangising, to be sure) had sunk into its grave, giving place to the lusty eighteenth; when Mr. Isaac Newton was a tutor of Trinity, and Mr. Joseph Addison Commissioner of Appeals; when the presiding genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his adversaries began to pour in their trumps; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one another; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for Ministers as have never been seen, no, not in our own day; and a General, of whom it may be severely argued, whether he was the meanest miser or the greatest hero in the world; when Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough's nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; and very large full-bottomed wigs were just beginning to be worn with powder; and the face of Louis the Great, as his was handed in to him behind the bed-curtains, was, when issuing thence, observed to look longer, older, and more dismal daily. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John Hayes, Captain Wood, Monsieur de Galgenstein, Doctor Wood, Corporal Brock, Ensign Macshane, Gustavus Adolphus, Three Rooks, Doctor Dobbs, Tom Billings, Peter Brock, Duke of Marlborough, George of Denmark, Bugle Inn, Captain Geraldine, Master Thomas Billings, Miss Catherine, Polly Briggs, Tom Trippet, Bavarian Envoy, Captain Macshane, Marylebone Gardens, Newgate Calendar, William of Nassau, Father O'Flaherty New!
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At that famous period of history, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- writing, Oliver-Cromwellising, Stuartising, and Orangising, to be sure) had sunk into its grave, giving place to the lusty eighteenth; when Mr. Isaac Newton was a tutor of Trinity, and Mr. Joseph Addison Commissioner of Appeals; when the presiding genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his adversaries began to pour in their trumps; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one another; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for Ministers as have never been seen, no, not in our own day; and a General, of whom it may be severely argued, whether he was the meanest miser or the greatest hero in the world; when Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough's nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; and very large full-bottomed wigs were just beginning to be worn with powder; and the face of Louis the Great, as his was handed in to him behind the bed-curtains, was, when issuing thence, observed to look longer, older, and more dismal daily. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John Hayes, Captain Wood, Monsieur de Galgenstein, Doctor Wood, Corporal Brock, Ensign Macshane, Gustavus Adolphus, Three Rooks, Doctor Dobbs, Tom Billings, Peter Brock, Duke of Marlborough, George of Denmark, Bugle Inn, Captain Geraldine, Master Thomas Billings, Miss Catherine, Polly Briggs, Tom Trippet, Bavarian Envoy, Captain Macshane, Marylebone Gardens, Newgate Calendar, William of Nassau, Father O'Flaherty New!
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- Thus It is by Martin Exeter on page 107
- Roman Empire by Colin Well on page 118
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