The life and adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves /
"This new edition brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves. No annotated edition of the work existed before the second half of the twentieth century, and this comprehensive edition by Robert Folkenflik and Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick fea...
| Основен автор: | Smollett, T. 1721-1771. |
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| Други автори: | Folkenflik, Robert, 1939-, Fitzpatrick, Barbara Laning. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2002]
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| Серия: |
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. Works. 1988.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Life and adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves; CHAPTER I. In which certain personages of this delightful history are introduced to the reader's acquaintance.; CHAPTER II. In which the hero of these adventures makes his first appearance on the stage of action.; CHAPTER III. Which the reader, on perusal, may wish were chapter the last.; CHAPTER IV. In which it appears that the Knight, when heartily set in for sleeping, was not easily disturbed.
- CHAPTER V. In which this recapitulation draws to a close. CHAPTER VI. In which the reader will perceive that in some cases madness is catching.; CHAPTER VII. In which the knight resumes his importance.; CHAPTER VIII. Which is within a hair's breadth of proving highly interesting.; CHAPTER IX. Which may serve to shew, that true patriotism is of no party.; CHAPTER X. Which sheweth that he who plays at bowls, will sometimes meet with rubbers.; CHAPTER XI. Description of a modern Magistrate.; CHAPTER XII. Which shews there are more ways to kill a dog than hanging.
- CHAPTER XIII. In which our Knight is tantalized with a transient glimpse of felicity. CHAPTER XIV. Which shews, That a man cannot always sip, When the cup is at his lip.; CHAPTER XV. Exhibiting an interview, which, it is to be hoped, will interest the curiosity of the reader.; CHAPTER XVI. Which, it is to be hoped, the reader will find an agreeable medley of mirth and madness, sense and absurdity.; CHAPTER XVII. Containing adventures of chivalry, equally new and surprising.; CHAPTER XVIII. In which the Rays of Chivalry shine with renovated Lustre.
- CHAPTER XIX. Containing the atchievements of the knights of the Griffin and Crescent. CHAPTER XX. In which our Hero descends into the Mansions of the Damned.; CHAPTER XXI. Containing further Anecdotes relating to the Children of Wretchedness.; CHAPTER XXII. In which Capt. Crowe is sublimed into the Regions of Astrology.; CHAPTER XXIII. In which the Clouds that cover the Catastrophe begin to disperse.; CHAPTER XXIV. The Knot that puzzles human Wisdom, the Hand of Fortune sometimes will untie familiar as her Garter.
- CHAPTER THE LAST. Which, it is to be hoped, will be, on more accounts than one, agreeable to the reader. Notes to the Text; Textual Commentary; List of Emendations; Textual Notes; Word-Division; Historical Collation; Publication Dates; Bibliographical Descriptions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.