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Chambers'S Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts (Volume Xvii-Xviii)

Chambers'S Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts (Volume Xvii-Xviii)

Chambers, William

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9354501222
ISBN13: 9789354501227
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into the parlour, the workshop, and the wider world of Victorian Britain, where curiosity was a daily habit and knowledge was made to travel. A world in brief, brilliantly. Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts (Volumes XVII-XVIII) gathers brisk, approachable pieces shaped for the general reader: penny magazine style articles that move from popular science articles and practical instruction to history and biography sketches, travel glimpses, and reflections on character. This Victorian miscellany anthology mirrors an age hungry for facts, improvement, and readable ideas. Read as a nineteenth-century essay collection, it is also an educational tracts compilation with a purpose: to inform, steady, and delight. William Chambers helped define affordable, wide-circulation reading in 19th century Britain, and these volumes preserve that lively, public-spirited tone in Victorian England literature. Dip in for moral and practical essays when you want clear-eyed counsel; follow a chain of short topics when you want the pleasure of browsing; or use it as homeschool supplemental reading and Victorian primary source reading, rich in period language, values, and everyday intellectual life. For collectors, it sits naturally beside the journals and pamphlets of the Household Words era reading, a small library of what ordinary readers once turned to between work, worship, and leisure. A vivid record of popular education before broadcasting, and still perfect for bedside dipping. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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