Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Catalogue of Books from Parochial Libraries in Shropshire
Author: Shropshire County LibraryPublisher: London : Mansell
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
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Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Library Catalogues of the English Renaissance
Author: Sears Reynolds JaynePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Early Oxford Press
Author: Falconer MadanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Author: Mary HaysPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513275992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays’s novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide. Modern critics and readers, however, have recognized the novel as a groundbreaking work of feminist fiction. In a series of letters to her adopted son Augustus Harley, Emma Courtney reveals the tragic details of her life. Young and in love with Augustus’s father, Courtney dreamed of marrying him and starting a family. Despite their true connection, Harley is unable to marry—his continued income is only guaranteed, he claims, if he remains a bachelor. Meanwhile, a man named Mr. Montague promises Courtney a life of safety and financial stability if she will agree to marry him, which, after learning that Harley has secretly been married all along, she does. Heartbroken, Courtney settles for a life with her new husband, and raising her daughter becomes her only cause for passion. When she realizes the extent of Mr. Montague’s dishonesty, however, she struggles to reconcile her former sense of individuality with the life she has been forced to live. When Harley suddenly reappears, however, feelings from the past return that threaten to flood Courtney’s heart and overturn what stability she thought had been her own. Memoirs of Emma Courtney is an epistolary novel exploring themes of desire, inequality, and the love that transcends the values and bonds of society. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Heralds
Author: Brian KillickPublisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241024157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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