A Guide to Historical Fiction

592 Pages·1914·63.109 MB·English

by  Ernest Albert Baker

A GUIDE TO
HISTORICAL FICTION
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Uniform in size and price.
A GUIDE TO THE
BEST FICTION IN ENGLISH
New Edition, entirely re-written and greatly amplified,
with a copious Index of 170 pages.
This well-knownworkofreference indispensabletoLibrarians, Publishers,
Booksellers, Heads of Schools and Colleges, and all interested in English
Literature has been thoroughly brought down to date, and enlarged by the
incorporationofa very largenumberof.worksoffictionofallperiods, including
the Mediaeval Romances, the novels of the Elizabethan Age, of the iyth and
i8th Centuries, and translationsofearly stories and sagas from the Celticand
Norselanguages,aswellas a much larger selectionthanbeforefromEuropean
and other Languages. Between 7,000 and 8,000 individualworks are cited,
with descriptive notes, particulars of publishers and prices, and other biblio-
graphical data. The American section is a very full one, and ample space has
been devoted to translations ofimportant fiction, not omitting suchasare now
out ofprint or otherwise obscure.
The verycopious Index, extending over 170 pages, gives full reference to
Authors, Titles, Subjects, and Localities. Immense trouble hasbeen taken to
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ENGLISH FICTION
whetheroriginal ortranslated,and will answeranyquestion likelytobe put by
the student, the social investigator, the teacher, orthegeneral reader.
LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED
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TO
A GUIDE
HISTORICAL FICTION
BY
ERNEST
A. BAKER, M.A., D.LiT.
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AUTHOR OF "A GUIDE TO THE BEST FICTION IN ENGLISH," ETC.
EDITOR OF " HALF-FORGOTTEN BOOKS," " LIBRARY OF
EARLY NOVELISTS," ETC.
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS LIMITED
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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1914
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