18086 Kipling Pevious owner writing in first

Pevious owner writing in first endpaper

Delarivier Manley

Kareem skillfully convinces us that the Age of Reason and the Gothic novel were part of the same transition in thought that worked its way through the 18th century

and finally bitter falling-out

Together with an Historical Commentary by Anthony Burgess

18086 Kipling Pevious owner writing in firstEntire subtitle: "Being a Collection of the most sensational True Crimes and the most notorious Real Criminals that blotted the name of Brittain in the years 1660 1800. By Various Hands. The Whole collected together and embellishd with Observations historical, moral, and critical by Lillan de la Torre." Contributors include Andrew Lang, Daniel Defoe, Raymond Postgate, Sir Walter Scott, Johan Paget, G. Thorn Drury, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Pearson,