Victorian Prose: An AnthologyRosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Columbia University Press, 27.08.1999 г. - 504 страници This engaging, informative collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain—inviting modern readers to see the age anew. The collection represents the voices of a broad scope of women and men on a range of nineteenth-century cultural issues and in various forms—from periodical essays to travel accounts, letters to lectures, and autobiographies to social surveys. |
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... person I saw , on my arrival , was Mr. D-- , a stout sulky looking man , who carried me through the hall to show me to his wife and children . Next day I was put up by the vendue mas- ter to know how much I was worth , and I was valued ...
... person . I never heard a slave say so . I never heard a Buckra man say so , till I heard tell of it in England . Such people ought to be ashamed of themselves . They can't do without slaves , they say . What's the reason they can't do ...
... persons as , when once there , were not likely to be able to return , and who must therefore work for such pay as they could get , being even more destitute and helpless than those belonging to the parishes in which they resided . To ...
... person of common stature may comfortably stand upright . Here she sees a couple of coarse palliasses , laid on the ground , with a little bedding to each , and all the remaining space cumbered with old boxes , and different tools ...
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LIX | 259 |
LX | 267 |
LXII | 270 |
LXIII | 273 |
LXV | 279 |
LXVII | 283 |
LXVIII | 287 |
LXX | 295 |
XX | 87 |
XXII | 93 |
XXIV | 101 |
XXVI | 107 |
XXVIII | 115 |
XXX | 121 |
XXXII | 131 |
XXXIII | 143 |
XXXV | 157 |
XXXVII | 165 |
XXXVIII | 175 |
XL | 183 |
XLII | 189 |
XLIV | 199 |
XLVI | 207 |
XLVIII | 215 |
L | 221 |
LII | 229 |
LIV | 235 |
LVI | 241 |
LVII | 247 |
LXXIII | 305 |
LXXV | 313 |
LXXVII | 319 |
LXXIX | 325 |
LXXXI | 329 |
LXXXII | 337 |
LXXXIV | 349 |
LXXXV | 359 |
LXXXVIII | 364 |
LXXXIX | 371 |
XC | 377 |
XCI | 385 |
XCIII | 393 |
XCIV | 401 |
XCV | 409 |
XCVIII | 417 |
C | 423 |
CII | 427 |
CIII | 449 |
CV | 455 |