Early Works: 'Aesop's Fables', 'Letters Written to and for Particular Friends' and Other Works

by Samuel Richardson

This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism - and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables - resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521830524
• ISBN13: 9780521830522
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 3.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"