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Название: The Essential Works of William Harrison Ainsworth

Автор: William Harrison Ainsworth

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СКАЧАТЬ BOOK 2. THE SEXTON

       Chapter 1. The Storm

       Chapter 2. The Funeral Oration

       Chapter 3. The Churchyard

       Chapter 4. The Funeral

       Chapter 5. The Captive

       Chapter 6. The Apparition

       BOOK 3. THE GIPSY

       Chapter 1. A Morning Ride

       Chapter 2. A Gipsy Encampment

       Chapter 3. Sybil

       Chapter 4. Barbara Lovel

       Chapter 5. The Inauguration

       Chapter 6. Eleanor Mowbray

       Chapter 7. Mrs. Mowbray

       Chapter 8. The Parting

       Chapter 9. The Philter

       Chapter 10. Saint Cyprian’s Cell

       Chapter 11. The Bridal

       Chapter 12. Alan Rookwood

       Chapter 13. Mr. Coates

       Chapter 14. Dick Turpin

       BOOK 4. THE RIDE TO YORK

       Chapter 1. The Rendezvous at Kilburn

       Chapter 2. Tom King

       Chapter 3. A Surprise

       Chapter 4. The Hue and Cry

       Chapter 5. The Short Pipe

       Chapter 6. Black Bess

       Chapter 7. The York Stage

       Chapter 8. Roadside Inn

       Chapter 9. Excitement

       Chapter 10. The Gibbet

       Chapter 11. The Phantom Steed

       Chapter 12. Cawood Ferry

       BOOK 5. THE OATH

       Chapter 1. The Hut on Thorne Waste

       Chapter 2. Major Mowbray

       Chapter 3. Handassah

       Chapter 4. The Dower of Sybil

       Chapter 5. The Sarcophagus

       L’Envoy

      MEMOIR

       Table of Contents

      William Harrison Ainsworth was born in King Street, Manchester, February 4, 1805, in a house that has long since been demolished. His father was a solicitor in good practice, and the son had all the advantages that educational facilities could afford. He was sent to the Manchester grammar-school, and in one of his early novels has left an interesting and accurate picture of its then condition, which may be contrasted with that of an earlier period left by the “English opium-eater.” At sixteen, a brilliant, handsome youth, with more taste for romance and the drama than for the dry details of the law, he was articled to a leading solicitor of Manchester. The closest friend of his youth was a Mr. James Crossley, who was some years older, but shared his intellectual taste and literary enthusiasm. A drama written for private theatricals, in his father’s house was printed in Arliss’s Magazine, and he also contributed to the Manchester Iris, the Edinburgh Magazine, and the London Magazine. He even started a periodical, which received the name of The Bœotian, and died at the sixth number. Many of the fugitive pieces of these early days were collected in volumes now exceedingly rare: “December Tales” (London, 1823), which is not wholly from his pen; the “Works of Cheviot Tichburn” (London, 1822; Manchester, 1825), dedicated to Charles Lamb; and “A Summer СКАЧАТЬ