POE’S TALES OF ADVENTURE, MYSTERY, AND Imagination. By Edgar Allan Poe. With a Biographical Introduction by the Editor, Portrait of the Author, and Illustrations.
“Contains over forty of Poe’s marvellous stories, certainly among the most exciting and sensational tales ever written. The volume itself is a marvel, comprising, as it does, over 560 pages, strongly and neatly bound, for two shillings.”—Newcastle Chronicle.
Volume XI.—Second Edition.
COMEDIES BY MOLIÈRE: Including The Would-be Gentleman; The Affected Young Ladies; The Forced Marriage; The Doctor by Compulsion; Scapin’s Rogueries; The Blunderer; The School for Husbands; The School for Wives; The Miser; The Hypochondriac; The Misanthrope; The Blue-Stockings; Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite. Newly Translated by Charles Matthew, M.A. The Translation revised by the Editor, with a Portrait of the Author, and Biographical Introduction.
“We hope that this new translation of Molière’s magnificent comedies will make them as widely known as they deserve to be.”—Playgoer.
Volume XII.—Second Edition.
FORSTER’S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. By John Forster, Author of “The Life of Charles Dickens,” etc. With a Biography of Forster by the Editor, and Numerous Illustrations by Maclise, Stanfield, Leech, and others.
Forster’s “Life of Goldsmith” is a work which ranks very high among successful biographies. Washington Irving said of it: “It is executed with a spirit, a feeling, a grace, and an elegance, that leave nothing to be desired.”
Volume XIII.—Second Edition.
LANE’S MODERN EGYPTIANS: The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. By Edward William Lane, Translator of the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.” With a Biographical Introduction by the Editor, Sixteen Full-page Plates, and Eighty Illustrations in the Text.