We are indebted to Thomas Dekker for one of the most humorous characters in all Elizabethan literature; namely, Simon Eyre, an old shoemaker whose affairs became hilariously involved with those of the gentry. (Volume 47, Harvard Classics)
Introductory Note: Charles Lamb
On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
Introductory Note: Thomas Dekker
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species (Ch. 1 Variation under Domestication), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
Thoughts (The Misery Of Man Without God), by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (The Passion of the Queen), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English (On Inoculation), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Valiant Little Tailor, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Introductory Note: Alfred Tennyson
Morte d’Arthur, by Alfred Tennyson
Introductory Note: Friedrich von Schiller
William Tell (Act III, Scene III), by Friedrich von Schiller
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
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