• Publication: Shorter Novels: Eighteenth CenturyPublication Record # 569437
• Author: Philip Henderson
• Date: 1930-00-00
• Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons
• Pub. Series: Everyman's Library
• Pub. Series #: 856
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: xii+306
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: OMNIBUS
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 45408174
  • Reginald-1: 07094

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story • (1811) • novel by Horace Walpole (variant of The Castle of Otranto 1764)
• Vathek: An Arabian Tale • [Vathek • 1] • (1834) • novel by William Beckford (trans. of Vathek 1786)
• Introduction (Shorter Novels: Eighteenth Century) • essay by Philip Henderson
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia • novel by Samuel Johnson (variant of The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 1759)
• Notes (Shorter Novels: Eighteenth Century) • essay by Philip Henderson