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Comic Tales And Lyrical Fancies: Including The Chessiad, A Mock-Heroic In Five Cantos; And The Wreath Of Love In Four Cantos

Comic Tales And Lyrical Fancies: Including The Chessiad, A Mock-Heroic In Five Cantos; And The Wreath Of Love In Four Cantos

Dibdin, Charles

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HumorFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1163094609
ISBN13: 9781163094600
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies is a collection of humorous and poetic works by Charles Dibdin. The book includes The Chessiad, a mock-heroic poem divided into five cantos, which satirizes the game of chess and its players. The Wreath of Love, another poem in the collection, is divided into four cantos and tells the story of a young man's search for love. Along with these longer works, the book also includes a variety of shorter comic tales and lyrical poems. Overall, Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies showcases Dibdin's talent for both humor and poetry.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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