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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The volume is a revised American edition of Ebenezer Cobham Brewer’s Reader’s Handbook, a compact reference…

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta

The work presents itself as a sprawling “dinner of fragments,” a self‑conscious collection of literary…

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The work is a scholarly reference rather than a narrative, presenting a catalogue of characters drawn from…