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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 1

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "PREFACE. It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding. How much more difficult is it to construct stories suited to the early years of youth, and, at the same time, conformable to the complicate relations of modern society—fictions, that shall display examples of virtue, without initiating the young...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 2

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "PREFACE. Some author says, that a good book needs no apology; and, as a preface is usually an apology, a book enters into the world with a better grace without one. I, however, appeal to those readers who are not gluttons, but epicures, in literature, whether they do not wish to see the bill of fare? I appeal to monthly critics, whether a preface that gives a view of ...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 10

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "There is Helen in the lime-walk," said Mrs. Collingwood to her husband, as she looked out of the window. The slight figure of a young person in deep mourning appeared between the trees,—"How slowly she walks! She looks very unhappy!" "Yes," said Mr. Collingwood, with a sigh, "she is young to know sorrow, and to struggle with difficulties to which she is quite unsuited...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 8

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "No less an event than Alfred's marriage, no event calling less imperatively upon her feelings, could have recovered Lady Jane's sympathy for Caroline. But Alfred Percy, who had been the restorer of her fortune, her friend in adversity, what pain it would give him to find her, at the moment when he might expect her congratulations, quarrelling with his sister—that sist...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 3

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "Mrs. Stanhope, a well-bred woman, accomplished in that branch of knowledge which is called the art of rising in the world, had, with but a small fortune, contrived to live in the highest company. She prided herself upon having established half a dozen nieces most happily, that is to say, upon having married them to men of fortunes far superior to their own. One niece ...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 9

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "When I was a little boy of about six years old, I was standing with a maid-servant in the balcony of one of the upper rooms of my father's house in London—it was the evening of the first day that I had ever been in London, and my senses had been excited, and almost exhausted, by the vast variety of objects that were new to me. It was dusk, and I was growing sleepy, bu...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 6

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "Are you to be at Lady Clonbrony's gala next week?" said Lady Langdale to Mrs. Dareville, whilst they were waiting for their carriages in the crush-room of the opera-house. "Oh, yes! every body's to be there, I hear," replied Mrs. Dareville. "Your ladyship, of course?" "Why, I don't know; if I possibly can. Lady Clonbrony makes it such a point with me, that I believe I...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 5

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "To be candid with you, my dear young friend, my secret reason for denying myself the pleasure of Tuesday's fête is, that I have just heard that there is a shocking chicken-pox in the village near you; and I confess it is one of my weaknesses to dread even the bare rumour of such a thing, on account of my Amelia: but I should not wish to have this mentioned in your hou...

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TALES AND NOVELS — VOLUME 4

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few...

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THE PARENT'S ASSISTANT; OR, STORIES FOR CHILDREN

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Excerpt: "Indeed, in all sciences the grand difficulty has been to ascertain facts—a difficulty which, in the science of education, peculiar circumstances conspire to increase. Here the objects of every experiment are so interesting that we cannot hold our minds indifferent to the result. Nor is it to be expected that many registers of experiments, successful and unsuccessful, ...

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EL ABSENTISTA

EDGEWORTH, MARÍA

«El absentista» narra la vida extravagante que lleva la familia de Lord Colambre en Londres, lejos de Irlanda, donde sus padres tienen su hogar, sus negocios y sus deberes. Combinando elementos heroicos y sentimentales con una cómica sátira de costumbres, «El absentista» es una vivaz novela sobre la vergüenza y el esnobismo, rica en episodios y personajes y de una trepidación p...

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