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entative Men.= By R. W. Emerson. FICTION. THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE NOVELS AND ROMANCES OF SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART., M.P. Uniformly printed in crown 8vo, corrected and revised throughout, with new Prefaces. 20 vols. in 10, price =L3= =3=s. cloth extra; or any volumes separately, in cloth binding, as under:-- _s._ _d._ RIENZI: THE LAST OF THE TRIBUNES 3 6 PAUL CLIFFORD 3 6 PELHAM: OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN 3 6 EUGENE ARAM. A Tale 3 6 LAST OF THE BARONS 5 0 LAST DAYS OF POMPEII 3 6 GODOLPHIN 3 0 PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE 2 6 NIGHT AND MORNING 4 0 ERNEST MALTRAVERS 3 6 ALICE; OR THE MYSTERIES 3 6 THE DISOWNED 3 6 DEVEREUX 3 6 ZANONI 3 6 LEILA; OR THE SIEGE OF GRANADA 2 6 HAROLD 4 0 LUCRETIA 4 0 THE CAXTONS 4 0 MY NOVEL (2 vols.) 8 0 Or the Set complete in 20 vols. =L3= =11= =6= " " half-calf extra =5= =5= =0= " " half-morocco =5= =11= =6= "No collection of prose fictions, by any single author, contains the same variety of experience--the same amplitude of knowledge and thought--the same combination of opposite extremes, harmonized by an equal mastership of art; here, lively and sparkling fancies; there, vigorous passion or practical wisdom--these works abound in illustrations that teach benevolence to the rich, and courage to the poor; they glow with the love of freedom; they speak a sympathy with all high aspirations, and all manly struggle; and where, in their more tragic portraitures, they depict the dread images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, while they move our hearts by terror or compassion, that we learn to detect and stifle in ourselves the evil thought which we see gradually unfolding itse
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