ABSTRACT

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

part |13 pages

Translation from Blackwood’s Magazine 1821

chapter |11 pages

The Sport of Fortune. A Fragment

From a true History. By Schiller

part |273 pages

Articles and translations from the London Magazine 1821–4

chapter |22 pages

John Paul Friedrich Richter

The Happy Life of the Parish Priest in Sweden Last will and Testament – the House of Weeping

chapter |59 pages

Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected

By the Author of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

chapter |2 pages

The Lion’s Head

[Anecdotage]

chapter |14 pages

Anecdotage, No. I

Miss Hawkins’s Anecdotes*

chapter |11 pages

Death of a German Great Man

chapter |7 pages

The Lion’s Head

chapter |39 pages

Mr Schnackenberger; or, Two Masters for One Dog

From the German

chapter |21 pages

The Dice

From the German

chapter |21 pages

The King of Hayti

From the German

chapter |4 pages

Measure of Value

part |58 pages

Miscellaneous Translations 1823–4

chapter |22 pages

The Fatal Marksman

chapter |13 pages

The Incognito; or, Count Fitz-Hum

chapter |21 pages

The Somnambulist