ENGLISH STORY

IN PROSE

An Introduction
to the English Novel
by

PHYLLIS M. BISHOP

THOMAS NELSON & SONS, LTD.

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

8208 B6225en

First Edition published May 1925

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT
THE PRESS OF THE PUBLISHERS

INTRODUCTION

SIR LAUNCELOT TO THE RESCUE (Sir Thomas

Malory: Morte Darthur")

.

A LOVER'S SPEECH (John Lyly: "Euphues")

A WARRIOR'S FAREWELL (Sir Philip Sidney:

Arcadia")

SIMON EYRE (Thomas Deloney: "The Gentle

Craft").

PEN PORTRAITS (Sir Thomas Overbury: "Char-

acters").

MR. FEARING (John Bunyan: "The Pilgrim's

Progress")

THE SPECTATOR CLUB (Richard Steele:“ Spectator'

SIR ROGER IN Town (Joseph Addison:" Spectator")

THE MEETING IN THE DESERT (Daniel Defoe:

"Captain Singleton ").

AN UNWELCOME SUITOR (Samuel Richardson:

"Clarissa Harlowe ")

Tristram

SOPHIA WESTERN (Henry Fielding: "Tom Jones

WIDOW WADMAN (Laurence Sterne :

Shandy")

PHILOSOPHIC Comfort for the Loss of a FRIEND

(Samuel Johnson : "Rasselas ")

DR. PRIMROSE AT THE FAIR (Oliver Goldsmith:

The Vicar of Wakefield”)

THE FIRST BALL (Fanny Burney:

A MYSTERIOUS RENDEZVOUS (Mrs. Radcliffe :

"The Mysteries of Udolpho")

THE BALL AT THE CROWN" Jane Austen:

Emma")

THE ASTROLOGER (Sir Walter Scott:

Durward")

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*". Quentin

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109

THE RECUSANT (Sir Walter Scott: "Old Mortality") 118

THE GUESTS AT CROTCHET CASTLE (T. L. Peacock: