Episodes of fiction, or, Choice stories from the great novelists : with biographical introductions / and numerous original illustrations by eminent artists engraved on wood by R. Paterson
- Published:
- Edinburgh : Wm. P. Nimmo, 1870.
- Physical Description:
- [vii]-xiv, 304 pages including illustrations, plates : frontispiece plate ; 21 cm
- Contents:
- De Foe, D. An incident in a young ragamuffin's career; An adventure in the African desert.--Richardson, S. The death of Clarissa; Duel between Lovelace and Colonel Morden.--Fielding, H. A hunting scene.--Smollett, T. A nocturnal adventure; Commodore Trunnion's ride to church.--Sterne, L. The story of Maria; The death of Le Fevre.--Walpole, H. The mysterious helmet.--Goldsmith, O. The adventures of a strolling player.--Poltock, R. The winged woman.--Beckford, W. The hall of Eblis.--Godwin, W. The exlixir of immortality.--Hook, T. The vicissitudes of a civic dignitary.--Mackenzie, H. A colloquy with a beggar.--Griffin, G. Found drowned.--Galt, J. A Scottish wedding.--Radcliffe, Mrs. The mysteries of the castle; A plot and the plotters.--Smith, Mrs. C. A domestic picture.--Landon, L. E. The novice.--Shelley, Mrs. Alone in the world; The pursuit.--Mitford, Miss. Tom Cordery.--Behn, Mrs. A. Oroonoko and Imoinde.--Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth. The quarrel.
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- Choice stories from the great novelists
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