17280 Compendiums and Collected Works Timber Press

Timber Press

Edgeworth and others from our favorite period with modern authors

Desirable Cambridge edition in red dust jacket

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Sophia Sentiment in the Loiterer

17280 Compendiums and Collected Works Timber PressHow does one achieve immortality? Jackson, a professor of English at the University of Toronto, challenges our assumptions about great English authors of the Romantic period. Why do we still read Wordsworth and not Southey? Why Austen and not Brunton or Scott? The mechanisms of achieving, and losing, fame and canon status, is described in entertaining detail, and gives us much serious material to ponder. Fame is fickle, and also managed by