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The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

by Benjamin Franklin, Plato, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Anonymous, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of
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Jack Sheppard

Enriched edition. Historical Novel

by William Harrison Ainsworth, Paige Caldwell ...

William Harrison Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" is a riveting historical novel set in 18th-century England, revolving around the infamous escapades of the real-life criminal Jack Sheppard. Ainsworth's narrative is steeped in vivid descriptions and dramatic tension, employing a rich, yet accessible literary style that balances Victorian sentimentality with a robust exploration of crime and punishment. ... Read more

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William Harrison Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" is a riveting historical novel set in 18th-century England, revolving around the infamous escapades of the real-life criminal Jack Sheppard. Ainsworth's narrative is steeped in vivid descriptions and dramatic tension, employing a rich, yet accessible literary style that balances Victorian sentimentality with a robust exploration of crime and punishment.
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The Lancashire Witches

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

The classic Victorian novel of romance and an unholy feud reaching across generations, based on the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.Widely considered to be a masterpiece of nineteenth–century gothic literature, William Ainsworth's The Lancashire Witches begins in 1536 with a fateful confrontation atop the notorious Pendle Hill. Falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death, Nicholas Demdike ... Read more

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The classic Victorian novel of romance and an unholy feud reaching across generations, based on the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.Widely considered to be a masterpiece of nineteenth–century gothic literature, William Ainsworth's The Lancashire Witches begins in 1536 with a fateful confrontation atop the notorious Pendle Hill. Falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death, Nicholas Demdike
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Elizabethan England

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by William Harrison ...

William Harrison's Elizabethan England offers a vivid, unsparing portrait of sixteenth-century English life, from royal palaces and university halls to cottages, markets, and parish houses. Drawing on chronicles, letters, maps, and his own observation, Harrison ranges across social ranks, law, poverty, clothing, food, religion, education, housing, crime, punishment, shipping, and the navy, ... Read more

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William Harrison's Elizabethan England offers a vivid, unsparing portrait of sixteenth-century English life, from royal palaces and university halls to cottages, markets, and parish houses. Drawing on chronicles, letters, maps, and his own observation, Harrison ranges across social ranks, law, poverty, clothing, food, religion, education, housing, crime, punishment, shipping, and the navy,
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Cardinal Pole

or, The Days of Philip and Mary

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

England under Mary Tudor, the Spanish marriage, the Smithfield fires, and the papal legate sent to bring the country back. Ainsworth wrote it from the state papers and did not spare either side. This edition adds fifty-five plates after painters including Gainsborough, Munch and Thomas Barker, and four illustrations restored and coloured for the volume. ... Read more

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England under Mary Tudor, the Spanish marriage, the Smithfield fires, and the papal legate sent to bring the country back. Ainsworth wrote it from the state papers and did not spare either side. This edition adds fifty-five plates after painters including Gainsborough, Munch and Thomas Barker, and four illustrations restored and coloured for the volume.
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The Constable De Bourbon

A Marshal of France Turned Against It

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

The Constable de Bourbon turns against Francis the First, leads the imperial army into Italy and dies at the sack of Rome in 1527. Ainsworth wrote it from the chronicles and the sack is not prettified. This edition is bound with 39 plates after François Clouet, Léonard Limousin, Corneille de Lyon and others, portraits of the Valois court from 1412 to 1925. ... Read more

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The Constable de Bourbon turns against Francis the First, leads the imperial army into Italy and dies at the sack of Rome in 1527. Ainsworth wrote it from the chronicles and the sack is not prettified. This edition is bound with 39 plates after François Clouet, Léonard Limousin, Corneille de Lyon and others, portraits of the Valois court from 1412 to 1925.
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Rookwood

A Contested Estate and Dick Turpin's Ride

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

A disputed inheritance, a gypsy camp, a tomb opened at midnight, and Dick Turpin riding from London to York in a night. Ainsworth's first success; the ride belonged to another highwayman until Ainsworth gave it to Turpin, and it has been believed ever since. This edition binds 47 plates after Grimshaw, Stubbs, Gainsborough and Romney, alongside 13 illustrations restored and coloured for the text. ... Read more

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A disputed inheritance, a gypsy camp, a tomb opened at midnight, and Dick Turpin riding from London to York in a night. Ainsworth's first success; the ride belonged to another highwayman until Ainsworth gave it to Turpin, and it has been believed ever since. This edition binds 47 plates after Grimshaw, Stubbs, Gainsborough and Romney, alongside 13 illustrations restored and coloured for the text.
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The Lancashire Witches

A Romance of Pendle Forest

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

Pendle Forest in 1612, where a real trial hanged ten people on the evidence of a nine-year-old girl. Ainsworth was a Lancashire man, worked from the surviving court record, and set his romance among people who had actually been named in it. This edition includes a gallery of 59 plates of paintings bound with the text, among them works by Odilon Redon, John Constable and Ivan Shishkin, 1800–1916. ... Read more

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Pendle Forest in 1612, where a real trial hanged ten people on the evidence of a nine-year-old girl. Ainsworth was a Lancashire man, worked from the surviving court record, and set his romance among people who had actually been named in it. This edition includes a gallery of 59 plates of paintings bound with the text, among them works by Odilon Redon, John Constable and Ivan Shishkin, 1800–1916.
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The Tower of London

A Historical Romance

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

Nine days in 1553 when Lady Jane Grey was queen, told inside the walls of the Tower, with the executions at the end of it. Ainsworth wrote it room by room from the building itself, and it was published with Cruikshank's plates as a kind of guided tour of the place. Its 83 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition. ... Read more

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Nine days in 1553 when Lady Jane Grey was queen, told inside the walls of the Tower, with the executions at the end of it. Ainsworth wrote it room by room from the building itself, and it was published with Cruikshank's plates as a kind of guided tour of the place. Its 83 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
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The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45

Lancashire in the Jacobite Rising

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

Manchester in 1745, the townsmen who came out for the Young Pretender, and the heads that stayed on the Exchange afterwards. Ainsworth was a Manchester man and wrote his own city's part in the rising from the trial records. This edition adds fifty-six plates after Reynolds, Zoffany, Wright of Derby and others, and three illustrations restored and coloured for the text. ... Read more

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Manchester in 1745, the townsmen who came out for the Young Pretender, and the heads that stayed on the Exchange afterwards. Ainsworth was a Manchester man and wrote his own city's part in the rising from the trial records. This edition adds fifty-six plates after Reynolds, Zoffany, Wright of Derby and others, and three illustrations restored and coloured for the text.
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The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

The Last Abbot of Whalley. CHAPTER I.—THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL. There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire. Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the mountain. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero; the woody eminences of Bowland; the bleak ridges of Thornley; the broad moors of Bleasdale; the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag; and ... Read more

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The Last Abbot of Whalley. CHAPTER I.—THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL. There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire. Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the mountain. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero; the woody eminences of Bowland; the bleak ridges of Thornley; the broad moors of Bleasdale; the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag; and
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Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the 21st of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him. On his ... Read more

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In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the 21st of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him. On his
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