English Literature

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"I know the name, but the face is unfamiliar" — we might say this of many authors, sometimes even of our favourites ones. Mr. Warner presents here a portrait gallery of a hundred illustrious British writers, from Chaucer to Orwell, while his text gives us in a nutshell the basic facts of their lives and work. The wealth and variety are remarkable. We have portraits or sketches by famous artists — Holbein, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Reynolds, Raeburn, Rossetti, John, and many others: there are little-known pictures, such as Hazlitt's self-portrait or the hitherto unpublished study of Cobbett; for Matthew Arnold and several later writers excellent photographs have been used. A few only of the great are omitted — Malory, Webster and Marlowe, for instance — because no authenticated representation of them exists.
"And did you once see Shelley plain?" Here is a wonderful opportunity to study at leisure the faces of men and women who have made English literature.
GIBBON'S
Decline and... Tovább

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"I know the name, but the face is unfamiliar" — we might say this of many authors, sometimes even of our favourites ones. Mr. Warner presents here a portrait gallery of a hundred illustrious British writers, from Chaucer to Orwell, while his text gives us in a nutshell the basic facts of their lives and work. The wealth and variety are remarkable. We have portraits or sketches by famous artists — Holbein, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Reynolds, Raeburn, Rossetti, John, and many others: there are little-known pictures, such as Hazlitt's self-portrait or the hitherto unpublished study of Cobbett; for Matthew Arnold and several later writers excellent photographs have been used. A few only of the great are omitted — Malory, Webster and Marlowe, for instance — because no authenticated representation of them exists.
"And did you once see Shelley plain?" Here is a wonderful opportunity to study at leisure the faces of men and women who have made English literature.
GIBBON'S
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire A ONE VOLUME ABRIDGMENT BY
D.M. LOW "It is, as one would expect from so conscientious a Gibbon scholar, a very excellent abridgment. Nothing important is omitted continuity is maintained by excellent running commentaries What pleasure can be derived from the wealth of this ingenious abridgment."
HAROLD NICOLSON
"Decline and Fall remains the greatest of all histories written in English A thoroughly attractive volume Mr. Low has done his cutting expertly, and his 900 pages give us the true Gibbon in all his splendour."
DAVID DAICHES
"Intelligently selected and beautifully produced." M.I. FINLEY
With maps. 42s net
Also by OLIVER WARNER
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A PORTRAIT OF LORD NELSON
"A biography which can be recommended for its intelligence and scholarship a faithful record, vivid in its wealth of unfamiliar detail." The Times
"A portrait worthy of its subject."
The Times Literary Supplement
"He has taken all of Nelson's many traits woven them into a composite tapestry, and set this with marvellous precision against the backgroi^nd of the times." Observer
"Mr. Oliver Warner does more than succeed — he triumphs." Roger Fulford, Evening Standard
Illustrated 30j net
Emma Hamilton and Sir William
"[A} valuable addition to Nelsoniana."
Corola Oman, The Listener
"Sir William Hamilton more than deserves his own portrait. An elegant study, written in sober good taste."
Punch
"Mr. Warner arranges his rich material artfully."
The Times
"Orderly and highly readable Entertaining most pleasing and illuminating." The Observer
Illustrated 25s net
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