EARLY WORKS by Samuel Richardson, Alexander Pettit (Editor) ( 9780521830522 )

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EARLY WORKS
'AESOP'S FABLES', 'LETTERS WRITTEN TO AND FOR PARTICULAR FRIENDS' AND OTHER WORKS

By:

Samuel Richardson, Alexander Pettit (Editor)

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Hardback

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0521830524

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9780521830522

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2011

Series:

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson

Pages:

848

Description:

The first edition of all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson.

Synopsis:

This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism - and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables - resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own. Readers familiar with only Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison will gain a fresh appreciation of the genesis of and the historical and cultural complexities at work in these famous novels, and readers new to Richardson will encounter an agile writer who invites closer consideration. A lengthy introduction situates the constituent works in Richardson's career as well as in the period more broadly, and the extensive textual apparatus records the bibliographical histories of the texts and their treatment by their present editor.

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Cambridge University Press

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