Chambers'S Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts (Volume Xv-Xvi)
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.03.2021
Herausgeber
William ChambersVerlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
526
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/3,1 cm
Gewicht
845 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5450-106-7
Open this volume and the nineteenth century speaks. Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts (Volumes XV-XVI) gathers brisk, idea-rich pieces that once travelled from parlour to workshop, designed to inform, steady, and delight. Victorian minds never sat still. As a literary miscellany anthology, it ranges across a Victorian nonfiction collection of popular science essays, practical sketches, and vivid social history articles, alongside moral and educational tracts shaped for self-improvement. Edited by William Chambers in nineteenth century Edinburgh, these selections show what curious readers in Victorian era Britain actually consumed: accessible knowledge, civic-minded reflection, and clear prose that respects ordinary intelligence. Read today as a nineteenth century periodical reprint, the Chambers miscellany collection offers primary source reading for anyone interested in how modern habits of learning were made - and why they mattered. For classic nonfiction for students, it is a portable window onto everyday debates about work, character, progress, and community; for collectors, it sits naturally beside the great Victorian reading culture, in the same broad, humane tradition as Dickens' Household Words. Dip in at random or follow an interest; the variety rewards both the casual browser and the serious historian. Its blend of instruction and entertainment helped shape mass reading, making these tracts a small archive of Victorian publishing at work in its prime. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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