The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part III vol 20

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the final part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Table of Contents:
Abbreviations -- Conventions for Manuscript Transcription -- Prefaces &c. to the Collected Editions -- Extract from a Letter written by Mr De Quincey to the American Editor of his Works -- {Draft Introduction to the Boston edition} -- Prefaces &c. from Sehz’tions Grave and Gay -- I Autobiographic Sketches (1853) -- Preface -- III Miiallanies, chicfly Narrative (i) (1 854) -- Postscript {to System of the Heavens’} -- Postscript {to System of the Heavens’}: A Manuscript Fragment -- Postscript {to The Spanish Military Nun’} -- IV Miscellanies, Chiefly Narrative (ii) (1 854) -- Explanatory Notices -- Postscript {to On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine As’: -- VI Sketches, Ctiiicaland Biographic (1857) Preface -- VII Studies on Secret Records, Personal and Historic. With Other Papers (1858) -- Preface -- Supplementary Note on the Essenes -- Appendix -- VIII Essays Sceptical and ílnti-Sa’p:ical. on Problems Negleesed or MisconceivI (1858) -- {Draft Title- Page} -- Preface -- IX Leaders in Literature, with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affeding Them (1858) -- Prefatory Notice -- X Classic Records Revieud or Deciphered (1859) -- Preface -- XI critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric, with German Tales, and Other Narrative Papers (1859) -- Prefatory Memoranda -- XII Spectulations. Literary aial Phi losophy with German Tales, and Other Narrative Papers -- Prefatory Note -- Prefatory Note on Coleridge {Manuscript Transcript} -- {Draft Preface for a Volume of selection Grave and Gay -- Publishd Addenda -- from the Westmorland Gazette -- Corn Laws ( 1818) -- Whether Both Ends Meet in 1819 (1819) -- Paper of the Bank dEngland {I—V} (1819) -- From Blackwood's Magazine -- Observations on The Revolt of Islam(18l9) -- from the Edinburgh Post -- The PubLic Amusements (1827) -- {Michael Scort}(1827) -- {ReLigious Pamphleteers} (1828) -- {Historic Survey of German Poerry}(1828) -- Marginlia -- Manuscript Addenda -- To the Editor of the Wa,ai Gazette (c.18 19) -- {Winter Evenings Employment frir &rsons 1 All Rank} (c. 1819) -- {The Wesrrnortand Laker} (c. 1821) -- {Lord Ca.ctlereagh and Wcstmor land} (c 1821) -- {List of &riodicalsl (1828) -- {The house tiCommons} (c. 1835) -- {French Books} (c. 1836) -- {Letters on Literature} (c. 1837—45) -- {Commercial Almanacl (c. 1839) -- {Those Who Travel in Caravans} (1840—I) -- {Ethics} ( 1841) -- {Forgery} (C. 1841) -- On the Working Population of Great Britain in Relation to the FkiLitical Prospects of the Land (1842) -- {TheTmth}(c. 1842) -- A Review ti a Philosophical Paper by Mr. Fcrrier (c. 1842) -- {Notes on lkdirical Economy} (1842—3) -- On l-logarrh’s Funeral in the Harlots Progress as Noted by Lamb -- -1843 -- {The Physical and the MoralJ(1843) -- {Agriculture and War} (1844) -- {Dining Out} (1848) -- {Loose Thoughts on Punctuation} (1850) -- {A Sketch from Childhood} (1851) -- {Rhabdomancy} (1856) -- {The Lake Dialect} (1856–7) -- {Pink Was the Man} (1857) -- Undatable -- In Private -- {Cyrus of Elam} -- {Mora Alexandrina} -- {Moralists} -- In the Berg -- {Genius} -- {An Advocate Has Two Functions} -- {Chronology} -- {God’s Words} -- {Sin} -- {Immortality} -- {Greek and Hebrew} -- {My Mother} -- In the Bodleian Library {Irritation of the Mind} -- {No Age Can be Clear to Itself} -- {The Mass} -- {Varieties of Conversation} -- {2 or 3 Branches of Study} -- {By the Way, Mr. Foreigner} -- In the Folger Shakespeare Library Shakspeare and Wordsworth -- In the Georgetown University Library {Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Four Manuscript Fragments} -- {The Grecian Glories} -- {Outward Shows} -- In the Harvard University Library {Quantity} -- In the National Library of Scotland {In Isis} -- {A Standing Jest} -- In the Library of the University of Texas {Cause of the Novel’s Decline} -- {Population and Produce} -- In the Library of Worcester College, Oxford -- Modern -- In the Wordsworth Library, Grasmere {Cannot We Abstract?} -- {Sylvia Drowned} -- {Three Men of Genius} -- {The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power} -- {Lord Byron} -- {On Human Progress} -- {Punctuation} -- {Verbal Inspiration} -- {Tragedy} -- In Various Libraries -- {Fragments on Christianity} -- Explanatory Notes -- Textual Notes.

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