Includes works from Samuel Johnson's 'Life of Richard Savage' to Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer,' including fiction by Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt

Product Description: These nine novels are "the best of the best"—great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the 18th and 19th 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; Nightmare Abbey is Thomas Love Peacock's satire on his friends, the Romantic poets Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron...read more

Product Description: Here are five personal and provocative lectures accompanied by illustrative prose and verse readings by a writer who has struggled with the vicissitudes of the literary profession throughout his career, often tending bar to support himself.

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