Author: Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin
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Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336817522X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author: John Gassner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486410982
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Sixteen works from American theater, 1787 1911: "Charles the Second" (1824); "Fashion "(1845); "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852); "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1883); "The Mouse-Trap" (1889); "The Great Divide" (1906); more. Background essay. "

Author: Charles Hawtrey
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513285637
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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The Private Secretary (1883) is a three-act comedy by English actor and playwright Charles Hawtrey. Adapted from a popular German farce, The Private Secretary helped launch Hawtrey’s career as one of Victorian England’s leading theatrical figures. Initially panned by critics and audiences, The Private Secretary was revised and shortened by Hawtrey, who then restaged the play to resounding praise. Revived countless times throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Private Secretary is a comic masterpiece that set the stage for such playwrights as Oscar Wilde. Harry Marsland and Douglas Cattermole are two young friends who find themselves deeply in debt. Ever unwilling to take responsibility, they look to Robert Spalding, a clergyman as honest as he is innocent, for a way out. While Spalding is employed as a secretary for the Marsland family, Douglas...borrows...his identity in order to seek forgiveness from his creditors. Meanwhile, Douglas’ uncle returns from India and mistakes the unwitting clergyman for his nephew and precedes to berate him for his newfound silence and passivity. When a suspicious creditor uncovers their poorly concealed plan, the two friends must bribe him with a chance to stay at Harry’s family estate, which only further risks the chance of Spalding getting to the bottom of his own strange situation. The Private Secretary is a comedy of manners that dissects English aristocratic life in order to expose its capacity for vanity, greed, and exploitation. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition Charles Hawtrey’s The Private Secretary is a classic work of English comedy reimagined for modern readers.

Author: Sophie Frances Fane Veitch
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393059465
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.

Author: Eliza Lynn Linton
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The Rebel of the Family (1880) is the first New Woman novel by Eliza Lynn Linton. Perdita Winstanley, the novel's protagonist, struggles to balance the competing demands of her snobbish, conservative mother and sisters, her radical friends in the women's rights movement, and an admirable but low-born chemist and his family. The Rebel of the Family also includes what is perhaps the first literary portrait of the late-Victorian lesbian community in London, featuring Bell Blount and her “little wife” Connie. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and appendices that help to set the work in its historical and literary contexts.