โ Scribed by Brown, Kenneth H (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
These nine novels are the best of the best--great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Samuel Johnson's biography of Richard Savage raises the life of a scoundrel to the level of great art; George Eliot profoundly influenced Henry James with her horror story The Lifted Veil ; Le Fanu writes a "sinister but gracious" supernatural gothic; Joseph Conrad draws from his life as a sea captain in The Secret Sharer ; Nightmare Abbey is Thomas Love Peacock's satire on his friends, the romantic poets Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron.
These, with the other short novels in this collection, represent the pinnacle of achievement in their genre.
Life of Richard Savage , by Samuel Johnson
Castle Rackrent , by Maria Edgeworth
The Room in the Dragon Volant , by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Cousin Phillis , by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Lifted Veil , by George...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
V.1. A characteristic mood. A view of the short story -- the narrator and the mime. Medieval stories. Elizabethan profusion -- euphuism and coney-catching. The character writers of the 17th century. The eighteenth century -- the moral story enclosed in the essay. Short stories of the novelists -- v.