A Book of English Prose, Part 1
Arranged for Preparatory and Elementary Schools

Originally published in 1913, this book of English prose for school children forms part of a two-volume series.

Percy Lubbock (Author)

9781107604896, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 February 2012

150 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.9 cm, 0.17 kg

Originally published in 1913, this book of English prose for school children forms part of a two-volume series: the first volume contains selections for preparatory and elementary schools; the second volume contains selections for secondary and high schools. Both texts cover a broad variety of literary styles, moving chronologically from the late-medieval period through to the nineteenth century, explanatory notes being provided where necessary. The selections were arranged by Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), a renowned essayist, critic and biographer, who became Henry James's editor after his death.

Prefatory note
1. The passing of Arthur Sir Thomas Malory
2. Death of Robert Bruce Sir J. Bourchier, Lord Berners
3. The schoolmaster Roger Ascham
4. Drake at Nombre de Dios Sir Francis Drake
5. Voyage up the River Orinoco Sir Walter Ralegh
6. Death of Richard III John Speed
7. The fisherman and the milk-maid Izaak Walton
8. The fire of London John Evelyn
9. Christian and hopeful John Bunyan
10. A journal of the plague year Daniel Defoe
11. Capture of the fleet of Blefuscu Jonathan Swift
12. Alexander Selkirk Richard Steele
13. The vision of Mirza Joseph Addison
14. Flatus William Law
15. A letter Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
16. The happy valley Samuel Johnson
17. The vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith
18. The smugglers Sir Walter Scott
19. Death of Nelson Robert Southey
20. Great-grandmother Field Charles Lamb
21. Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving
22. Tom Cordery the rat-catcher Mary Russell Mitford
23. Highwaymen in the 17th century Lord Macaulay
24. The Gypsies George Borrow
25. Rebecca Sharp arrives at Sir Pitt Crawley's W. M. Thackeray
26. Mr Squeers Charles Dickens
27. A channel crossing Charlotte Brontë
28. Ascent of Saddle-back Mountain H. D. Thoreau
29. North and south John Ruskin
30. The entrance to Fairyland George Macdonald
31. A voyage in a canal-barge Juliana Horatia Ewing
32. The gun in the garret Richard Jeffries
33. Will o' the mill Robert Louis Stevenson
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Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]