Selections from "Caleb Williams", Giving the History in Brief of Sir Edward Mortimer's Revenge, to Serve as a Companion Story to Colman's "Iron Chest", the Play Now Being Given by Henry Irving at the Lyceum

Selections from Author: William Godwin
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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Godwin Criticism

Godwin Criticism PDF Author: Burton Ralph Pollin
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Rochester

Rochester PDF Author: Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving PDF Author: Bram Stoker
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama PDF Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer

Western Massachusetts

Western Massachusetts PDF Author: John Hoyt Lockwood
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections

The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections PDF Author: Alfred Edward Newton
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Collection of papers by the famous American book collector on the delights of collecting.

A Player and a Gentleman

A Player and a Gentleman PDF Author: Amy E. Hughes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Hardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager Harry Watkins (1825–94) was also a prolific diarist. For fifteen years Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Performing across the U.S., Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording his successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P. T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Lucy Stone. His is the only known diary of substantial length and scope written by a U.S. actor before the Civil War—making Watkins, essentially, the antebellum equivalent of Samuel Pepys. Theater historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated excerpts from the diary in an edition that offers a vivid glimpse of how ordinary people like Watkins lived, loved, struggled, and triumphed during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. The selections in A Player and a Gentleman are drawn from a more expansive digital archive of the complete diary. The book, like its digital counterpart, will richly enhance our knowledge of antebellum theater culture and daily life in the U.S. during this period.

The Enquirer

The Enquirer PDF Author: William Godwin
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Mandeville

Mandeville PDF Author: William Godwin
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460404912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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William Godwin’s Mandeville was described as his best novel by Percy Shelley, who sent a copy to Lord Byron, and it was immediately recognized by its other admirers as a work of unique power. Written one year after the battle of Waterloo and set in an earlier revolutionary period between the execution of Charles I and the Restoration, Mandeville is a novel of psychological warfare. The narrative begins with Mandeville’s rescue from the traumatic aftermath of the Ulster Rebellion of 1641 and proceeds through his early education by a fanatical Presbyterian minister to his persecution at Winchester school, his constant (and not unjustified) paranoia, and his confinement in an asylum. Mandeville’s final, desperate attempt to prevent his sister’s marriage to his enemy ends with his disfiguration, which also defaces endings based on settlement or reconciliation. The novel’s events have many resonances with Godwin’s own period. The historical appendices offer contemporary reviews, including Shelley’s letter to Godwin praising Mandeville, material explaining the novel’s complex historical background, and contemporary writings on war, madness, and trauma.