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Evelina
By
FANNY BURNEY ;
edited with an introduction by
EDWARD BLOOM,
Brown University. Evelina,
the first and best of Fanny Burney's novels, tells
the story of a young girl, fresh from the provinces and "her first appearance upon
the great and busy stage of life." The life and temper of eighteenth-century Eng–
land is revealed through Evelina's curiosity, with all its contrasts of situation and
character-from the peace of the countryside to the excitement of London, from
the idyllic to the near-tragic and realistic. The text relies on that of the first
edition (1778) , with illustrations from the fourth edition ( 1779 ).
(Oxford Eng–
lish Novels.)
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Dictionary of Proper Names and
Notable Matters in the
Works of Dante
SECOND EDITION
By
PAGET TOYNBEE ;
revised by
CHARLES S. SINGLETON,
The Johns
Hopkins University.
Paget Toynbee's
D ictionary of Proper Names and Notab'le
Matters
in
the Works of Dante
appeared in 1898, and although he prepared an
abridged edition of the
Dictionary
in 1914, he never revised the larger original
work. Professor Singleton has drawn on more than half a century of Dante
scholarship for this revised edition, which now becomes the standard reference
dictionary of Dante's work.
$18.40
One Hundred and One Chinese Poems
Translated by
SHIH-SHUN LIU,
St. John's University.
In this volume, with
an introduction by Edmund Blunden and a foreword by John Cairncross, Professor
Liu has selected over a hundred poems. They are grouped by dynasty, well over
half being from Tang (A.D. 618-906). References to other translations of the
poems and a complete bibliography are supplied.
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Greek Federal States
THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND HISTORY
By
J.
A.
O . LARSEN,
University of Chicago.
This volume describes the govern–
ment and institutions of Greek federal states, and assesses their contributions to
interstate relations and rivalries. An introductory chapter sketching federal in–
stitutions is followed by two sections, divided chronologically by the King's Peace,
and in each of these, descriptions of individual states are followed by discussions
of the narrative history. The emphasis is placed on the contributions of the federal
states to some commonly neglected or distorted aspects of Greek history, and also
aspects of Roman expansion and imperialism when pertinent.
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