Selected English Essays – William Peacock (1926)

Description

Series Identity: The book is Volume 32 of The World’s Classics

Author: Peacock, Wadham

Description:

[London] : Oxford University Press, [1926]

Series:

The world’s classics

Notes:

Reprint of 1903 edition.

Condition: Good. 1926. Reprinted. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards show some wear and have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light sunning & crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Please see images for detail of condition.

543 Pages, Hardback, 15.5×9.5×2.3cm

(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)

Bacon, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hume, Lamb, Hazlitt, Shelley, Carlyle, Macaulay, Thackeray, Arnold, and Stevenson are some of the major essayists represented, and the choices here are judicious and reward repeated readings.