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Early Works: ´Aesop´s Fables´, ´Letters Written to and for Particular Friends´ and Other Works
Samuel Richardson
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Description for Early Works: ´Aesop´s Fables´, ´Letters Written to and for Particular Friends´ and Other Works
hardcover. The first edition of all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson. Editor(s): Pettit, Alexander. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1450.
This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism – and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables – resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own. Readers familiar with only Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison will gain a fresh appreciation of the genesis of and the historical and cultural complexities at work in these famous novels, and readers new to Richardson will ... Read more
This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism – and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables – resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own. Readers familiar with only Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison will gain a fresh appreciation of the genesis of and the historical and cultural complexities at work in these famous novels, and readers new to Richardson will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson
Number of Pages
848
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521830522
SKU
V9780521830522
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About Samuel Richardson
Alexander Pettit is Professor of English at the University of North Texas.
Reviews for Early Works: ´Aesop´s Fables´, ´Letters Written to and for Particular Friends´ and Other Works
Praise for the Series: 'At last we are going to have a definitive edition of Samuel Richardson's works and correspondence, long overdue, for the writer who was the most influential novelist of the eighteenth century. This ambitious project, 25 volumes of his works and his most important literary correspondence - each volume entrusted to a respected scholar - will illuminate ... Read more