Download or read book The Greatest Novels of Charles Reade written by Charles Reade and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 3700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection contains the best works of Charles Reade, English novelist and dramatist, famous for his historical novels: "The Cloister and the Hearth" is a Reade's most successful work. The story is set in 15th century and it is based on the life of parents of the infamous philosopher Erasmus. "Griffith Gaunt" is a tale of a poor man who makes his fortune and a fine living, but has one weakness in the form of an insane jealousy "Hard Cash" highlights the abuses of private lunatic asylums. "It Is Never Too Late to Mend" depicts abuses in prison discipline and the treatment of criminals. "Peg Woffington" portrays the London success of the Irish actress Peg Woffington and featured other prominent figures of the days such as David Garrick. "Put Yourself in His Place" tells the story is of an English manufacturing town in which Henry Little, a worker and inventor, is persecuted by trade unions, jealous because he was better trained than his fellows. "Foul Play" – In Victorian Britain a clergyman is wrongly convicted of a crime and transported to Australia.
Download or read book The Cloister and the Hearth written by Charles Reade and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest Novels of Charles Reade written by Charles Reade and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 3698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection contains the best works of Charles Reade, English novelist and dramatist, famous for his historical novels: "The Cloister and the Hearth" is a Reade's most successful work. The story is set in 15th century and it is based on the life of parents of the infamous philosopher Erasmus. "Griffith Gaunt" is a tale of a poor man who makes his fortune and a fine living, but has one weakness in the form of an insane jealousy "Hard Cash" highlights the abuses of private lunatic asylums. "It Is Never Too Late to Mend" depicts abuses in prison discipline and the treatment of criminals. "Peg Woffington" portrays the London success of the Irish actress Peg Woffington and featured other prominent figures of the days such as David Garrick. "Put Yourself in His Place" tells the story is of an English manufacturing town in which Henry Little, a worker and inventor, is persecuted by trade unions, jealous because he was better trained than his fellows. "Foul Play" – In Victorian Britain a clergyman is wrongly convicted of a crime and transported to Australia.
Download or read book Love Me Little Love Me Long written by Charles Reade and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEARLY a quarter of a century ago, Lucy Fountain, a young lady of beauty and distinction, was, by the death of her mother, her sole surviving parent, left in the hands of her two trustees, Edward Fountain, Esq., of Font Abbey, and Mr. Bazalgette, a merchant whose wife was Mrs. Fountain's half-sister. They agreed to lighten the burden by dividing it. She should spend half the year with each trustee in turn, until marriage should take her off their hands. Our mild tale begins in Mr. Bazalgette's own house, two years after the date of that arrangement. The chit-chat must be your main clue to the characters. In life it is the same. Men and women won't come to you ticketed, or explanation in hand. "Lucy, you are a great comfort in a house; it is so nice to have some one to pour out one's heart to; my husband is no use at all." "Aunt Bazalgette!" "In that way. You listen to my faded illusions, to the aspirations of a nature too finely organized, ah! to find its happiness in this rough, selfish world. When I open my bosom to him, what does he do? Guess now-whistles."
Download or read book A Perilous Secret written by Charles Reade and published by Golden Text. This book was released on 2017-05-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two worn travellers, a young man and a fair girl about four years old, sat on the towing-path by the side of the Trent. The young man had his coat off, by which you might infer it was very hot; but no, it was a keen October day, and an east wind sweeping down the river. The coat was wrapped tightly round the little girl, so that only her fair face with blue eyes and golden hair peeped out; and the young father sat in his shirt sleeves, looking down on her with a loving but anxious look. Her mother, his wife, had died of consumption, and he was in mortal terror lest biting winds and scanty food should wither this sweet flower too, his one remaining joy. William Hope was a man full of talent; self-educated, and wonderfully quick at learning anything: he was a linguist, a mechanic, a mineralogist, a draughtsman, an inventor. Item, a bit of a farrier, and half a surgeon; could play the fiddle and the guitar; could draw and paint and drive a four-in-hand. Almost the only thing he could not do was to make money and keep it.
Download or read book Hard Cash written by Charles Reade and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Hard Cash" by Charles Reade. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Hard Cash written by Charles Reade and published by Golden Text. This book was released on 2017-05-13 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN a snowy villa, with a sloping lawn, just outside the great commercial seaport, Barkington, there lived a few years ago a happy family. A lady, middle-aged, but still charming; two young friends of hers; and a periodical visitor. The lady was Mrs. Dodd; her occasional visitor was her husband; her friends were her son Edward, aged twenty, and her daughter Julia, nineteen, the fruit of a misalliance. Mrs. Dodd was originally Miss Fountain, a young lady well born, high bred, and a denizen of the fashionable world. Under a strange concurrence of circumstances she coolly married the captain of an East Indiaman. The deed done, and with her eyes open, for she was not, to say, in love with him, she took a judicious line--and kept it: no hankering after Mayfair, no talking about “Lord this” and “Lady that,” to commercial gentlewomen; no amphibiousness. She accepted her place in society, reserving the right to embellish it with the graces she had gathered in a higher sphere. In her home, and in her person, she was little less elegant than a countess; yet nothing more than a merchant-captain’s wife; and she reared that commander’s children in a suburban villa, with the manners which adorn a palace. When they happen to be there. She had a bugbear; Slang. Could not endure the smart technicalities current; their multitude did not overpower her distaste; she called them “jargon”--“slang” was too coarse a word for her to apply to slang: she excluded many a good “racy idiom” along with the real offenders; and monosyllables in general ran some risk of’ having to show their passports. If this was pedantry, it went no further; she was open, free, and youthful with her young pupils; and had the art to put herself on their level: often, when they were quite young, she would feign infantine ignorance, in order to hunt trite truth in couples with them, and detect, by joint experiment, that rainbows cannot, or else will not, be walked into, nor Jack-o’-lantern be gathered like a cowslip; and that, dissect we the vocal dog--whose hair is so like a lamb’s--never so skilfully, no fragment of palpable bark, no sediment of tangible squeak, remains inside him to bless the inquisitive little operator, and c., and c. When they advanced from these elementary branches to Languages, History, Tapestry, and “What Not,” she managed still to keep by their side learning with them, not just hearing them lessons down from the top of a high tower of maternity. She never checked their curiosity, but made herself share it; never gave them, as so many parents do, a white-lying answer; wooed their affections with subtle though innocent art, thawed their reserve, obtained their love, and retained their respect. Briefly, a female Chesterfield; her husband’s lover after marriage, though not before; and the mild monitress the elder sister, the favourite companion and bosom friend of both her children.
Download or read book Love Me Little Love Me Long written by Charles Reade and published by Golden Text. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEARLY a quarter of a century ago, Lucy Fountain, a young lady of beauty and distinction, was, by the death of her mother, her sole surviving parent, left in the hands of her two trustees, Edward Fountain, Esq., of Font Abbey, and Mr. Bazalgette, a merchant whose wife was Mrs. Fountain’s half-sister. They agreed to lighten the burden by dividing it. She should spend half the year with each trustee in turn, until marriage should take her off their hands. Our mild tale begins in Mr. Bazalgette’s own house, two years after the date of that arrangement.
Download or read book Never Too Late To Mend written by Charles Reade and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.
Download or read book The Complete Writings Of Charles Reade written by Charles Reade and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book It Is Never Too Late to Mend written by Charles Reade and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English dramatist and novelist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.
Download or read book Foul Play written by Charles Reade and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peg Woffington written by Charles Reade and published by Golden Text. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT the middle of the last century, at eight o’clock in the evening, in a large but poor apartment, a man was slumbering on a rough couch. His rusty and worn suit of black was of a piece with his uncarpeted room, the deal table of home manufacture, and its slim unsnuffed candle. The man was Triplet, scene painter, actor and writer of sanguinary plays, in which what ought to be, viz., truth, plot, situation and dialogue, were not; and what ought not to be, were--scilicet, small talk, big talk, fops, ruffians, and ghosts. His three mediocrities fell so short of one talent that he was sometimes impransus. He slumbered, but uneasily; the dramatic author was uppermost, and his “Demon of the Hayloft” hung upon the thread of popular favor. On his uneasy slumber entered from the theater Mrs. Triplet.
Download or read book White Lies written by Charles Reade and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'White Lies' is a novel written by Charles Reade. The story begins by introducing us to Baron de Beaurepaire who lived in a chateau in Brittany with his wife and two daughters. He was a wealthy and content man, with no ambition for power or social status. However, the French Revolution caused upheaval in the country and the baron was deeply disturbed by the actions of the republicans. He withdrew from society, felled timber, and raised money on his estate. Eventually, he disappeared and was later found to have died fighting for the Crown in La Vendee.
Download or read book Love Me Little Love Me Long written by Charles Reade and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Victorian Sensational Fiction written by Richard Fantina and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensation fiction emerged in the 1860s, and immediately generated alarm as many critics viewed the genre as a threat to prevailing Victorian values. Charles Reade, along with Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, was among the most well-known sensation novelists. With its explicit critique of power relations in the fields of medicine, criminal justice, and sexual mores, Reade’s work anticipates Michel Foucault’s theories elaborated a century later. Reade’s work also provides rare glimpses of alternative sexualities and gender identities in nineteenth-century fiction. This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory.
Download or read book The Complete Writings of Charles Reade Volume 4 written by Charles Reade and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
