16th To 18th Century Fiction

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    The Adventures Of Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett - Paperback
    Roderick is a boisterous & unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London & on the way meets Strap, an old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels & rogues.
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    The Adventures Of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett - Paperback
    Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless.
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    A Beleaguered City And Other Tales Of The Seen And The Unseen - Mrs. Oliphant - Paperback
    A Beleaguered City is an extraordinary set of stories about the dead that was written over one hundred years ago. Mrs Oliphant's tales were remarkable explorations of the supernatural at a time when the gothic and ghastly were more popular than realism.
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    The Daft Days - Neil Munro - Paperback
    The Daft Days is the story of an orphaned American girl who arrives in Scotland to stay with relatives. Against all odds and without losing her new family, she manages to become an actress in London and to liberate herself from this atmosphere.
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    Julia De Roubigné - Henry Mackenzie - Paperback
    Henry Mackenzie's 3rd and final novel was immediately popular with his contemporaries, but seems to have fared poorly since compared with the less-complex Man of Feeling. The novel deals with the processes by which a mind comes to disorder.
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    The Man Of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie - Paperback
    This edition reprints Brian Vickers's authoritative text, with an introduction that discusses the novel in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.
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    Sartor Resartus: The Life And Times Of Herr Teufelsdröckh - Thomas Carlyle - Paperback
    This work is an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism.
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    Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Paperback
    Jim Hawkins gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself.
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    Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Paperback
    Jim Hawkins gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself.
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    The White Cockade - Stuart McHardy - Paperback
    All across Scotland stories survive from the period when the Jacobites threatened to overturn the British Government and re-install the Stuart dynasty. Stuart McHardy has gathered the most famous and interesting of these tales together, creating a fascinating and varied picture of Jacobean life at the time.