The novel follows the misadventures and escapades of Mr. Verdant Green, a young and inexperienced freshman at Oxford University. The story is presented in a light-hearted and comical style, offering a satirical look at university life, the eccentricities of the academic world, and the social customs and traditions of Oxford during the mid-19th century.Mr. Verdant Green is portrayed as a somewhat naïve and well-meaning character, and the novel chronicles his encounters with various colorful...

The novel is a sequel to Bede's earlier work, "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green," and continues to chronicle Mr. Verdant Green's escapades and misadventures as he navigates through university life. Set against the backdrop of the academic world of 19th-century Oxford, the novel satirizes the eccentricities of university traditions, social etiquette, and the various characters Mr. Verdant encounters during his time at Oxford.Bede's writing style is characterized by its wit, light-hearted...

A cult college novel on its original publication in 1853, this is the funny tale of the adventures of a naive freshman, set loose on the dreaming spires of Oxford. This edition contains the author's original illustrations.

The English version of the “Ecclesiastical History” in the following pages is a revision of the translation of Dr. Giles, which is itself a revision of the earlier rendering of Stevens. In the present edition very considerable alterations have been made, but the work of Dr. Giles remains the basis of the translation. The Latin text used throughout is Mr. Plummer's. Since the edition of Dr. Giles appeared in 1842, so much fresh work on the subject has been done, and recent research has brou...

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For the first time in publishing history readers can enjoy the complete works of Sheridan Le Fanu, the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, whose groundbreaking works were central to the development of the Gothic genre in the Victorian era. This comprehensive eBook is complemented with numerous illustrations, informative introductions, scarce texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Le ...

Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included, followed by the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. It is generally thought that Dickens originally intended The Old Curi...

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This book-collection file includes 9 collections of stories and sketches: Sketches by Boz, the Uncommerical Traveller, Master Humphrey's Clock, A House to let, Contributions to All the Year Round, Three Ghost Stories, Mudgof and Other Sketches, Sketches of Young Couples, and Sketches of Young Gentlemen. It also includes 12 individual stories and sketches: Doctor Marigold, George Silman's Explanation, Going into society, Holiday Romance, Hunted Down, The Lamplighter, A Message from the Sea,...

Sometimes the greatest horrors lurk in the most mundane placesThis collection features some of M. R. James's greatest tales of the supernatural world crossing over into our own. In "Number 13," an inn that previously belonged to an alchemist changes dimensions in the night. "The Mezzotint" features a painting of a house reenacting a gruesome scene from the house's history. In "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas," an antiquary who has discovered the location of a treasure ...

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of the ecclesiastical buildings scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary discord all architectural attempts at newness there. To restore the grey carcases of a mediaevalism whos...