1st Edition

The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part III vol 20

By Grevel Lindop, Barry Symonds Copyright 2003
526 Pages
by Routledge

4192 Pages
by Routledge

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the final part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Abbreviations -- Conventions for Manuscript Transcription -- Prefaces &c. to the Collected Editions -- Extract from a Letter written by Mr De Quincey to the American Editor of his Works -- {Draft Introduction to the Boston edition} -- Prefaces &c. from Sehz’tions Grave and Gay -- I Autobiographic Sketches (1853) -- Preface -- III Miiallanies, chicfly Narrative (i) (1 854) -- Postscript {to System of the Heavens’} -- Postscript {to System of the Heavens’}: A Manuscript Fragment -- Postscript {to The Spanish Military Nun’} -- IV Miscellanies, Chiefly Narrative (ii) (1 854) -- Explanatory Notices -- Postscript {to On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine As’: -- VI Sketches, Ctiiicaland Biographic (1857) Preface -- VII Studies on Secret Records, Personal and Historic. With Other Papers (1858) -- Preface -- Supplementary Note on the Essenes -- Appendix -- VIII Essays Sceptical and ílnti-Sa’p:ical. on Problems Negleesed or MisconceivI (1858) -- {Draft Title- Page} -- Preface -- IX Leaders in Literature, with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affeding Them (1858) -- Prefatory Notice -- X Classic Records Revieud or Deciphered (1859) -- Preface -- XI critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric, with German Tales, and Other Narrative Papers (1859) -- Prefatory Memoranda -- XII Spectulations. Literary aial Phi losophy with German Tales, and Other Narrative Papers -- Prefatory Note -- Prefatory Note on Coleridge {Manuscript Transcript} -- {Draft Preface for a Volume of selection Grave and Gay -- Publishd Addenda -- from the Westmorland Gazette -- Corn Laws ( 1818) -- Whether Both Ends Meet in 1819 (1819) -- Paper of the Bank dEngland {I—V} (1819) -- From Blackwood's Magazine -- Observations on The Revolt of Islam(18l9) -- from the Edinburgh Post -- The PubLic Amusements (1827) -- {Michael Scort}(1827) -- {ReLigious Pamphleteers} (1828) -- {Historic Survey of German Poerry}(1828) -- Marginlia -- Manuscript Addenda -- To the Editor of the Wa,ai Gazette (c.18 19) -- {Winter Evenings

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Grevel Lindop, Barry Symonds