Early Works - Aesop s Fables, Letters Written to for Particular Friends Other

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Pettit is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. Klappentext The first edition of all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson. Zusammenfassung This is the first scholarly edition of all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson! his conduct-writing! religious controversialism! anti-theatrical polemic! occasional verse! literary criticism and his popular edition of Aesop's Fables. An authoritative scholarly edition! the volume features an introduction! explanatory notes and extensive textual apparatus. Inhaltsverzeichnis General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; General introduction; Textual introduction; The Apprentice's Vade Mecum (1733); A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions (1735); Verses from The Gentleman's Magazine (1736); Preface to Aubin, A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels (1739); Aesop's Fables (1739); Letters Written to and for Particular Friends (1741); Six Original Letters upon Duelling (1765); Appendix. The Infidel Convicted (1731); Emendations; Word-division; Bibliographical descriptions of early editions; Explanatory notes; Index.

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• Authors: Samuel Richardson, RICHARDSON SAMUEL
• Assisted by: Alexander Pettit (Editor), Alexander (University of North Texas) Pettit (Editor), Pettit Alexander (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521830522
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83052-2
• No. of pages: 848
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works; Cambridge Edition of the Works; The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Classic fiction, Literary studies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers