The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
10 best books like The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Samuel Johnson): Caleb Williams, Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England, Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland, The Vicar of Wakefield, Roxana, Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream, A Sentimental Journey, The Female Quixote, Camilla, A Tale of a Tub
| Author | William Godwin |
| ISBN | 0141441232 |
When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though...
| Author | John Lyly |
| ISBN | 0781272130 |
EARLY ENGLISH WIT, POETRY & SATIRE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475...
| Author | Friedrich Hölderlin |
| ISBN | 3938484195 |
Die schönste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Hölderlins 'Hyperion' vielfach genannt worden, ein unübertroffenes Meisterwerk des deutschen Idealismus, neben dem 'Faust' der Inbegriff klassischer deutschsprachiger Literatur. Seine Wirkung besonders auf die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts...
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0192805126 |
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation...
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| ISBN | 0192834592 |
Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving...
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream
| Author | Denis Diderot |
| ISBN | 0140441735 |
One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's Nephew,...
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0140437797 |
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes...
| Author | Charlotte Lennox |
| ISBN | 0192835726 |
The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion for reading romances colors her approach to her own life and causes many comical and melodramatic misunderstandings among her relatives and...
First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people - Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert....
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| ISBN | 0141018879 |
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity....
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0140436448 |
A great early nineteenth-century episodic novel of an orphan boy's rise to the upper classes, in the tradition of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews et al. The eponymous Harry Ormand is raised side-by-side with the son of the local lord, Sir Ulick O'Shane; his low-birth, however, keeps him from developing the...
| Author | Walter Scott |
| ISBN | 1406932531 |
Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural events, theological conflict, and humor. Located in the lawless Scottish Borders, the novel depicts the monastery of Kennaquhair (a thinly disguised Melrose Abbey, whose ruins are still to be seen near...
| Author | Tobias Smollett |
| ISBN | 1847024920 |
Does the above book cover for Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle look like an invitation to a frolicking, sexually charged escapade all in the spirit of good, clean fun? That's precisely what the publisher of this edition is aiming for.
Much, much different from...
2133 pages, consisting of 536 letters (plus conclusion and author's postscript) all cross-referenced - the author must have been a madman. A madman with an impressive filing system.
This is the kind of book that draws you in slowly but completely, with not much happening most of the time. So...
| Author | Henry Fielding |
| ISBN | 1426413807 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Henry MacKenzie |
| ISBN | 0192840320 |
Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring...
| Author | Eliza Fowler Haywood |
| ISBN | 1551113678 |
Panting and misspelled, Love in Excess is easy to roll your eyes at. But I think it deserves more. It was a blockbuster smash when it was published in 1720, as popular as Robinson Crusoe. It influenced Samuel Richardson and it's much more fun than his work. It was written by a woman and shows women who have...
Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0874518253 |
An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral...
