The English comic novelist R. S. Surtees wrote sporting and satirical masterpieces, shining a light on the foibles and obsessions of early Victorian England. He created Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature, a Cockney grocer obsessed with fox hunting, whose various misadventures would go on to influence Dickens’ ‘The Pickwick Papers’. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive e Book presents Surtees’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Surtees’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 8 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Plain or Ringlets’ and ‘Hillingdon Hall’
* The unfinished novel ‘Young Tom Hall’s Heart-aches and Horses’ — first time in digital print
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your e Reader a taste of the original Victorian texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works are fully illustrated with John Leech’s stunning colour illustrations for the original monthly parts
* Surtees’ rare non-fiction, including the seminal ‘The Horseman’s Manual’ – available in no other collection
* A bonus biography
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Novels
Handley Cross
Hillingdon Hall
Hawbuck Grange
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
Ask Mamma
Plain or Ringlets
Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds
Young Tom Hall’s Heart-aches and Horses
The Shorter Fiction
Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities
Mr. Jorrocks
The Non-Fiction
The Horseman’s Manual
Hints to Railway Travellers
Nimrod
Fox-Hunting
Fox-Hunting in Past and Present Times
Thoughts on Fortune-Hunting
The Biography
Brief Biography: R. S. Surtees by Thomas Seccombe
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