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  • The History of Pompey the Little, or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

    by Francis Coventry ...
    The first English novel with a dog as its hero - and one of the sharpest satires of the age, told from lap height.Published anonymously in 1751 and the talk of London within weeks, Francis Coventry's The History of Pompey the Little, or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog follows a Bologna lapdog as he passes from owner to owner through fashionable English and continental society. Pompey observes ... Read more

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  • The History of Pompey the Little

    Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

    by Francis Coventry ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1974, this volume of The History of Pompey the Little includes a critical introduction and a biographical sketch of the author based on new material from unpublished documents, together with explanatory notes for the novel's many classical and contemporary allusions.Francis Coventry's The History of Pompey the Little was the talk of London in 1751; it continued to captivate ... Read more

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    by Francis Coventry ...
    Narrated by Gerardo Ellis, Margaret Olsen, Sue Jones, Shanon Mahone ...

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    "Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages." At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an English gentleman illustrious for his gallantries, who brought him to London. The rest of the history is really a chain of social episodes, each closed by the incident that Pompey ... Read more

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  • Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

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    Regarded by some as the leading novelist of the Eighteenth Century, Samuel Richardson is best known for his epistolary novels, which changed the course of English literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Samuel Richardson, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. ... Read more

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    Regarded as Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore was a poet, satirist, composer, and political propagandist, as well as a close friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Moore’s complete poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. ... Read more

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