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These nine novels are the best of the best--great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Samuel Johnson's biography of Richard Savage raises the life of a scoundrel to the level of great art; George Eliot profoundly influenced Henry James with her horror story *The Lifted Veil*; Le Fanu writes a "sinister but gracious" supernatural gothic; Joseph Conrad draws from his life as a sea captain in *The Secret Sharer*; *Nightmare Abbey* is Thomas Love Peacock's satire on his friends, the romantic poets Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron.These, with the other short novels in this collection, represent the pinnacle of achievement in their genre.*Life of Richard Savage*, by Samuel Johnson *Castle Rackrent*, by Maria Edgeworth *The Room in the Dragon Volant*, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu *Cousin Phillis*, by Elizabeth Gaskell *The Lifted Veil*, by George Eliot *The Secret Sharer*, by Joseph Conrad *The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper*, by George Meredith *Nightmare Abbey*, by Thomas Love Peacock *Liber Amoris*, by William HazlittWörter : 266007

Author

Brown, Kenneth H.

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781628724721

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction