Popular Romances
Author | : Henry Weber |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Voyages, Imaginary |
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Author | : Henry Weber |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Voyages, Imaginary |
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Author | : Henry William WEBER |
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Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1812 |
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Author | : Henry Weber |
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Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Asia |
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Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
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Author | : George W. Cox |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2022-11-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368130153 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author | : Robert Hunt |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 843 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465603271 |
THE beginning of this collection of Popular Romances may I be truly said to date from my early childhood. I remember with what anticipations of pleasure, sixty-eight years since, I stitched together a few sheets of paper, and carefully pasted them into the back of an old book. This was preparatory to a visit I was about to make with my mother to Bodmin, about which town many strange stories were told, and my purpose was to record them. My memory retains dim shadows of a wild tale of Hender the Huntsman of Lanhydrock; of a narrative of streams having been poisoned by the monks; and of a legend of a devil who. played many strange pranks with the tower which stands on a neighbouring hill. I have, within the last year? endeavoured to recover those stories, but in vain. The living people appear to have forgotten them; my juvenile note-book has long been lost those traditions are, it is to be feared, gone for ever. Fifteen years passed away--about six of them at school in Cornwall, and nine of them in close labour in London,--when failing health compelled my return to the West of England. Having spent about a month on the borders of Dartmoor, and wandered over that wild region of Granite Tors, gathering up its traditions,--ere yet Mrs Bray [a] had thought of doing so, -- I resolved on walking through Cornwall. Thirty-five years since, on a beautiful spring morning, I landed at Saltash, from the very ancient passage-boat which in those days conveyed men and women, carts-and cattle, across the river Tamar, where now that triumph of engineering, the Albert Bridge, gracefully spans its waters. Sending my box forward to Liskeard by a van, my wanderings commenced; my purpose being to visit each relic of Old Cornwall, and to gather up every existing tale of its ancient people. Ten months were delightfully spent in this way; and in that period a large number of the romances and superstitions which are published in these volumes were collected, with many more, which have been weeded out of the collection as worthless.
Author | : East |
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Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1812 |
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Author | : Henry William Weber |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1812 |
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Author | : Robert Hunt |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
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Author | : Dieter Mehl |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136832238 |
First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.