More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Excerpt from The Works of Samuel Richardson, Vol. 7 of 12: With a Prefatory Chapter of Biographical Criticism O belford! What a hair's-breadth escape have I had! Such a one, that I tremble between terror and joy at the thoughts of what might have happened, and did not. What a perverse girl is this, to contend with her fate yet has reason to think that her very stars fight against her! I am the luckiest of men l - But my breath almost fails me, when I reflect upon what a slender thread my destiny hung. But not to keep thee in suspense; I have, within this half hour, obtained possession of the expected letter from Miss Howe - and by such an accident! But here, with the former, I despatch this; thy messenger waiting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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