Delphi Complete Works of Charles Reade (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Charles Reade (Illustrated)
Author: Charles Reade
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 13593
Release: 2014-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Although famed for his meticulously researched medieval masterpiece 'The Cloister and the Hearth', Charles Reade also penned some of the Victorian era’s most gripping sensation novels, creating controversial works that strove to end social evils and fight injustice. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Charles Reade, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Reade's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 15 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections and plays appearing here for the first time in digital print * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Reade's non-fiction seminal work on copyright: THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT – available no where else * Special criticism section, with five essays evaluating Reade’s contribution to literature * Features two biographies, including the seminal memoir compiled by Reade’s family - discover Reade's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels PEG WOFFINGTON CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND WHITE LIES ‘LOVE ME LITTLE LOVE ME LONG.’ THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH VERY HARD CASH GRIFFITH GAUNT FOUL PLAY PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION A SIMPLETON THE WANDERING HEIR A WOMAN HATER A PERILOUS SECRET The Tales THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH THE BOX TUNNEL CREAM A GOOD FIGHT SINGLE HEART AND DOUBLE FACE GOOD STORIES OF MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS THE JILT AND OTHER STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE COURIER OF LYONS MASKS AND FACES TWO LOVES AND A LIFE IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND The Non-Fiction THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT TRADE MALICE A HERO AND A MARTYR The Criticism DICKENS, READE, AND COLLINS: SENSATION NOVELISTS by Walter C. Phillips CHARLES READE by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch CHARLES READE by William Dean Howells CHARLES READE by David Christie Murray LETTERS AND REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES READE by Kinahan Cornwallis The Biographies CHARLES READE: DRAMATIST, NOVELIST, JOURNALIST CHARLES READE AS I KNEW HIM by John Coleman Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Transported to Botany Bay

Transported to Botany Bay
Author: Dorice Williams Elliott
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 082144669X
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Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England’s supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the “true” England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn’t fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people’s sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today.