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10 best books like The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart (Samuel Richardson): Mandragola, The Poems of St. John of the Cross, Hymns and Fragments, Coplas a la muerte de su padre, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love), The Major Works, The Shorter Poems, The Beaux' Stratagem

Mandragola
AuthorNiccolò Machiavelli
ISBN0917974573
Mandragola = The Mandrake, Niccolò Machiavelli
The Mandrake is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. Although the five-act comedy was published in 1524 and first performed in the carnival season of 1526, Machiavelli likely wrote The Mandrake in 1518 as...
The Poems of St. John of the Cross
AuthorJuan de la Cruz
ISBN0226401103
San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative...
Hymns and Fragments
AuthorFriedrich Hölderlin
ISBN0691014124
Holderlin was one among a group of German Romantic poets that were on the periphery of German Idealism. Along with Novalis and Schiller, his work utilizes Idealist concepts in an overtly aesthetic framework. Like many German Romantic poets and philosophers, he is often ignored by the sottish tendency...
Coplas a la muerte de su padre
AuthorJorge Manrique
ISBN9505810059



I imagine many of my friends in GR would have never heard of Jorge Manrique de Figueroa. He was foremost a military man but I am writing about him because he was also a poet. Manrique was born around 1440 in the Iberian Peninsula (either in Castile or in northern Andalusia) and came from a...
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0140432213
Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form...
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
AuthorTobias Smollett
ISBN0140430210
Reading the 18th Century novel is very much like riding a rambunctious horse. Actually, bowling along in a carriage; 100 years later, Eliot and the great Victorian novelists who were living with the noisy, fast, smoke-gouting trains would write with nostalgia of the grace and quietude and elegance...
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)
AuthorMatteo Maria Boiardo
ISBN1932559019
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
The Major Works
AuthorJohn Dryden
ISBN0192840770
John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This authoritative edition brings together a unique...
The Shorter Poems
AuthorEdmund Spenser
Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex...
The Beaux' Stratagem
AuthorGeorge Farquhar
It attests to Farquhar's stature as a man that he composed this warm-hearted and vibrant play while he was dying. Like The Recruiting Officer, the play is set in a provincial town and its plot is slight:
Aimwell and Archer, two impecunious London gentlemen, arrive in Lichfield looking for an heiress...
A Simple Story
AuthorElizabeth Inchbald
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question...
The Complete Poems
AuthorJohn Wilmot
ISBN1599869640
The 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, was an english libertine and close friend of King Charles II. Known as one of the greatest poets of the Restoration, he wrote and published popular satirical and bawdy poetry. This complete collection of his poetry presented in this paperback edition by Filiquarian...
Brief Lives
AuthorJohn Aubrey
ISBN0140435891
Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less...
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
AuthorGiordano Bruno
ISBN0803261047
"Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling," Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600.Bruno's...
The Poems of Alexander Pope
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN0300000308
A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version...
The Malcontent
AuthorJohn Marston
ISBN1854596969
The strength of this play is in the language, not the plot or charcaterisation or dramatic tension (although to be fair one should make judgements about plays which one has only read with caution: Shakespeare's comedies tend to look tame in print). The Malcontent closely parallels Tourneur's (if it...
The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties
AuthorFanny Burney
ISBN0192837583
The Wanderer or Female Difficulties is the tale of a penniless emigree from revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets. Combining the best elements of the gothic and historical novels, this newly appreciated work is an extraordinary piece of Romantic...
Jonathan Wild
AuthorHenry Fielding
ISBN0192804081
The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled "Thieftaker General," controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists...
The Man of Mode
AuthorGeorge Etherege
ISBN0713666897
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and...
English Society in the 18th Century
AuthorRoy Porter
ISBN0140138196
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. In this boldly drawn portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy...
Emmeline
AuthorCharlotte Turner Smith
ISBN1551113597
The plot of Charlotte Smith's autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the expected thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a "fairy-tale princess."At the same time, the novel satirically reworks such literary conventions by focusing on the dangers...
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