Three Comedies: The Uneasy Man, The Financier, and The Sylph
Title | Three Comedies: The Uneasy Man, The Financier, and The Sylph PDF eBook |
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Release | 1771 |
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Three Comedies: The Uneasy Man, The Financier, and The Sylph. Freely Translated from Messrs. de St. Foix and Fagan
Title | Three Comedies: The Uneasy Man, The Financier, and The Sylph. Freely Translated from Messrs. de St. Foix and Fagan PDF eBook |
Author | Fagan |
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Pages | 172 |
Release | 1771 |
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Three Comedies
Title | Three Comedies PDF eBook |
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Pages | 163 |
Release | 1771 |
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The London Chronicle
Title | The London Chronicle PDF eBook |
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Pages | 942 |
Release | 1771 |
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The Sylph
Title | The Sylph PDF eBook |
Author | Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire) |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2007-09-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0810122294 |
This ranging epistolary novel follows Julia Grenville, a Welsh beauty who knows little of the world until her marriage to the older Lord Stanley. Through Julia’s letters to her sister, readers learn more of Julia’s new life in London—her unfaithful husband, her miscarriage, her disillusionment with the city and its fashions. Other letters reveal that Julia has a longtime admirer, Harry Woodley, from her former life, as well as a mysterious guardian angel: her Sylph. This character guides Julia away from the depravities of her life in London, including her gambling problem. The Sylph is also another sympathetic ear to Julia’s increasing marital dissatisfaction and growing affinity for another man, the Baron Ton-hausen. As Julia nearly falls prey to the overzealous admirations of one of her husband’s associates, her husband is consumed by gambling debts to that same associate. She is shocked to discover the depths of her husband’s ruin and plans to flee to Wales before she too can be claimed in payment. Her disgraced husband takes the ultimate way out and Julia goes home to her father and sister in Wales. Her Sylph is not far behind, however, and soon reveals himself to Julia to be more than she could have ever imagined.
A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800
Title | A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Allardyce Nicoll |
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Pages | 408 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | English drama |
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A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Title | A History of English Drama 1660-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2009-06-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521109307 |
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.