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Klappentext Originally published in 1956, this anthology aims to introduce English prose literature to an audience of new readers. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1956! this anthology contains a total of sixty extracts! beginning with Thomas Malory and ending with Samuel Butler! with its aim being to introduce English prose literature to an audience of new readers and display the riches of English prose in its variety of style and rhythm. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Texts; The Anthology: 1. Thomas Malory, 1485, Le Morte d'Arthur; 2. Lord Berners, 1523-5, Sir John Froissart: Of the Chronicles of England etc. (translation); 3. Thomas More, 1551, Utopia (in the translation of Ralph Robynson); 4. Richard Hakluyt, 1598-1600, Principal Navigation, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation; 5. Thomas North, 1579, Plutarch's Lives (translation); 6. Philip Sidney, 1595, An Apologie for Poetrie; 7. John Lyly, 1580, Euphues and his England; 8. Thomas Nashe, 1584, The Unfortunate Traveller; 9. Francis Bacon, 1597, Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral; 10. Authorised version of the Bible, 1611, Ecclesiastes; 11. Thomas Dekker, 1603, The Wonderful Year 1603; 12. John Donne, 1640, LXXX Sermons; 13. Robert Burton, 1621, The Anatomy of Melancholy; 14. Izaak Walton, 1653, The Compleat Angler; 15. Jeremy Taylor, 1650-1, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying; 16. Thomas Browne, 1658, Urn Burial; 17. John Milton, 1644, Areopagitica; 18. Lord Clarendon, 1702-4, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England; 19. John Bunyan, 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress; 20. Thomas Traherne (1908), Centuries of Meditations; 21. Samuel Pepys, (1825), Diary; 22. John Aubrey, (1813), Brief Lives; 23. John Dryden, 1688, An Essay of Dramatick Poesy; 24. Samuel Johnson, 1779-81, Lives of the Poets; 25. Daniel Defoe, 1722, The Life of Colonel Jack; 26. Jonathan Swift, 1704, A Tale of a Tub; 27. Joseph Addison, 1711, The Spectator; 28. Richard Steele, 1711, The Spectator; 29. Samuel Richardson, 1747-8, Clarissa Harlowe; 30. Henry Fielding, 1749, Tom Jones; 31. Tobias Smollett, 1751, Peregrine Pickle; 32. Laurence Sterne, 1760-7, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; 33. James Boswell, 1791, Life of Samuel Johnson; 34. Horace Walpole, 1781, Letter to Lady Ossory; 35. Edward Gibbon, 1776-88, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; 36. Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the French Revolution; 37. Jane Austen, 1816, Emma; 38. Walter Scott, 1818, The Heart of Mid-Lothian; 39. William Hazlitt, 1823, The Plain Speaker; 40. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817, Biographia Literaria; 41. John Keats, 1818, Letter to Richard Woodhouse; 42. Charles Lamb, 1823, Essays of Elia; 43. Thomas De Quincey, 1822, Confessions of an English Opium-eater; 44. Walter Savage Landor, 1824-9, Imaginary Conversations; 45. Thomas Carlyle, 1837, The French Revolution; 46. Lord Macaulay, 1843, Critical and Historical Essays; 47. Emily Brontë, 1847, Wuthering Heights; 48. Charlotte Brontë, 1853, Villette; 49. Charles Dickens, 1836-7, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; 50. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847-8, Vanity Fair; 51. John Ruskin, 1843-60, Modern Painters; 52. Walter Pater, 1873, The Renaissance; 53. John Henry Newman, 1864, Apologia pro vita sua; 54. Matthew Arnold, 1865, Essays in Criticism; 55. George Elliot, 1860, The Mill on the Floss; 56. Thomas Hardy, 1891, Tess of the d'Urbevilles; 57. Lewis Carroll, 1872, Through the Looking-glass; 58. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881-3, Treasure Island; 59. George Meredith, 1879, The Egoist; 60. Samuel Butler, 1903, The Way of All Flesh; Commentary; Glossary; A list of the most accessible editions....
