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Excerpt from The History of Henry Fielding, Vol. 1 The title of this book will recall Fielding's favourite use of the word history, by which the great novelist meant a biography, either fictitious or real, that places in the proper social background all the incidents in the life of a man essential to knowing him, in conjunction with a sufficient account of the persons who bore upon that life for good or for evil. This was the aim of The Histo...

Excerpt from Autobiography at the Opening of the Revolutionary Age, Vol. 9: 1750 1790 With this volume we enter on the Age of Revolution. America and France become the centers of our vision, flaming torches of liberty, but of a liberty only to be gained through bloodshed and tempestuous upheaval, the massacre of kings and lords in Europe and of the "embattled farmers" of America. The war of the American Revolution lasted from 1775 to 1783, th...

Excerpt from The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne This book aims to present, within reasonable compass, the personal history of Laurence Sterne, along with some account of the numerous men and women with whom he associated at home and abroad. Hence it has been called, after an old fashion for similar biographies, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic b...

Excerpt from The Development of the English Novel The terms 'romance' and 'novel, ' which in them selves are a summary of the two con¿icting aims in fiction, require at the outset brief historical and de scriptive definition. The former is in English the older word, being in common use as early as the fourteenth century. Our writers then meant first of all by the romance 8. Highly idealized verse-narrative of adventure or love translated from...

Excerpt from The History of Henry Fielding On his feet once more, Fielding plunged into work with greater zest than ever. He wrote a novel, he wrote pam phlets, he conducted a newspaper, he issued proposals for a translation of Lucian directly from the Greek, he drafted measures for the Pelham Ministry, he reorganized the metropolitan police, and presided over the principal police court of Middlesex. When Hurd met him in March of 1751, he was...

Excerpt from The Yale Review, Vol. 9The purpose of this article is in no sense a prophetic one. In these history-making days it would be presumption indeed for anyone to attempt to lift the veil that obscures the future and to denote the essential characteristics of the economic and social world of to-morrow. The intent is rather to throw light on the causes of the world-wide social insurgence of the times. Understanding alone can serve to gui...

Excerpt from The History of Henry Fielding, Vol. 2 These books were studied and annotated in some cases as a preparation for treatises of his own. Fielding was in train ing for the Bench. Circumstances, however, checked his immediate ambi tions. The Ministry that had been patched up after the fall of Walpole was held in contempt by the politicians of both the Whig factions from which it had been formed. Consequently it had to face a torrent ...

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