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Chambers'S Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts (Volume Xix-Xx)

Chambers'S Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts (Volume Xix-Xx)

Chambers, William

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9354501303
ISBN13: 9789354501302
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into the busy reading rooms of Victorian Britain, where curiosity, self-improvement, and sheer narrative pleasure shared the same page. Curiosity is the keynote here. Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts (Volumes XIX-XX) gathers a nineteenth century essay collection of brisk, readable pieces: instructive and entertaining tracts on popular science and inventions, short history and biography, travel sketches and adventures, and the odd surprise that only a true Victorian miscellany anthology can deliver. Edited and published from 19th century Edinburgh publishing powerhouse W. and R. Chambers, these selections sit squarely in the Victorian periodical essay tradition that also fed magazines such as Charles Dickens' Household Words: practical knowledge made lively, moral without being dreary, and written for the widest possible audience. As an anthology of Victorian Britain popular literature, it captures the era's appetite for improvement, new machines, distant geographies, and memorable lives, in prose made for family reading aloud. Collectors will value it as a record of how knowledge travelled beyond universities, when the printed miscellany shaped public taste and everyday conversation. Its range keeps you turning pages, from workshop to parlour. For modern readers, it offers classic nonfiction for homeschool lessons, primary source reading excerpts for students, and a pleasure-box for anyone who likes to browse ideas rather than follow a single narrative. 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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