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  • An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (Old Edition)

    by Jane Collier ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Now the sport begins!' An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes methods for 'teasing and mortifying' one's intimates and acquaintances in a variety of social situations by taking advantage of their affections ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cry

    A New Dramatic Fable

    by Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier ...
    Series series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
    Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Published in 1754 in five parts and divided into three volumes, The Cry stands as one of the most distinctive and intriguing works by women during the florescence of their writing in eighteenth-century ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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    An Essay On The Art Of Ingeniously Tormenting (Unabridged)

    by JANE COLLIER ...
    Narrated by Leo Stafford ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane Collier and published in 1753. The Essay was Collier's first work, and operates as a satirical advice book on how to nag. It was modelled after Jonathan Swift's satirical essays, and is intended to "teach" a reader the various methods for "teasing and mortifying" one's acquaintances. It is divided into two sections ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Mansfield Park (Illustrated)

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  • Reading Dante

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