An Anthology of English Prose 1400-1900

Herausgeber: James, Eirian

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1956, this anthology aims to introduce English prose literature to an audience of new readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781107554252
• ISBN-10: 110755425X
• Artikelnr.: 43106613

Inhaltsangabe

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.