A biography of a man who never lived, complete with sources, campaigns and a death-bed - Falstaff treated as a historical figure by a writer who knew the joke would hold for a whole volume. Brough wrote for the comic papers and the burlesque stage.

"The Life of Sir John Falstaff" by Robert B. Brough is a captivating exploration of one of Shakespeare's most beloved characters. Falstaff, known for his wit, charm, and larger-than-life personality, is portrayed in a way that delves into his complexities and contradictions. Brough's narrative brings to life the humor and pathos of Falstaff's adventures, showcasing his relationships with other characters and his unique perspective on life. The book serves as both a tribute to Shakespeare's...

In "The Life of Sir John Falstaff," Robert B. Brough embarks on a meticulously crafted exploration of one of literature's most charismatic and complex characters. Through a rich narrative interwoven with humor and poignant reflections, Brough reimagines Falstaff's escapades, revealing both the mirth and melancholy that shape his larger-than-life persona. The book draws from a vast array of sources, contextualizing Falstaff within the Elizabethan social fabric and the broader themes of hono...

Timeless Tales of Chivalry gathers fifty works that imagine, inherit, and interrogate the medieval past through romance, adventure, chronicle, gothic fantasy, quest narrative, and historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading ideals to courtly love, dynastic conflict, religious struggle, and outlawry, the volume places canonical medieval voices beside later reinventions of chivalric culture. Its selection foregrounds the enduring literary power of tournaments, castles, pi...

The Life Of Sir John Falstaff by Robert B. Brough, Esq.

50 Medieval Historical Novels surveys the medieval past as it has been repeatedly reimagined across romance, adventure, Gothic fantasy, chivalric chronicle, religious allegory, and nationalist historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading narratives to courtly intrigue, outlawry, and imagined reconstructions of feudal society, the volume places canonical medieval texts beside later works that transform the period into a site of ethical conflict and popular entertainment. ...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prominent English writer and politician in the 19th century. Bulwer-Lytton is notable for being one of the first authors to earn a considerable fortune from just his books. Bulwer-Lytton also was responsible for famous sayings su...

This file includes Roderick Ransom, Peregrine Picke, Ferdinand Count Father, Sir Lancelot Greaves, Travels through France and Italy, and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. "According to Wikipedia: "Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 - 17 September 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1753)." Smollett was one of David Copperfield's (Charles Dickens') favorite autho...

The novel is set in 17th-century England, during the tumultuous period of the English Civil War and the Restoration. The story revolves around the lives of several central characters, including Julian Peveril, a royalist, and Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead. The novel explores their complex and often conflicting loyalties and relationships in a time of political and social upheaval.Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels are renowned for their historical accuracy and vivid portrayal of different...

To give a language to time, for the preservation of its records and the utterance of its lessons, has been amongst the occupations of man from the day when first he found himself in its mysterious presence down to these latter ages of the world; and yet, all the resources of his ingenuity, impelled by all the aspirations of his heart, have only succeeded in supplying it with an imperfect series of hieroglyphics, difficult in their acquirement and uncertain in their use. Ages upon ages of t...

Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is pressed as a com...

As a schoolboy, Charles Dickens took a copy of The Terrific Register every week, and he later recalled how it 'frightened my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly.' This selection contains all the finest ghost stories from this 185-year-old publication. With countless reports of apparitions and premonitions of all kinds, extraordinary instances of second sight, and visitations from spirits predicting fortunes, deaths and dreadful disasters, it wi...