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The May Flower For 1848

The May Flower For 1848

Hamilton, Robert

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354500447
ISBN13: 9789354500442
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Open The May Flower For 1848 and step into the parlour glow of the 1840s Victorian era in Britain, where reading was both pastime and moral compass. A season in print, preserved. This 1848 annual publication gathers the kind of pieces once exchanged as a nineteenth century gift book: polished Victorian poetry and prose, reflective moral essays and tales, and lighter sketches shaped for shared reading. As a literary annual anthology and classic literary miscellany, it captures what made Victorian literary annuals and nineteenth century keepsake books so enduring: sentiment balanced with instruction, artfulness matched to occasion, and a keen sense of the year as a moment worth commemorating. Designed for dipping in, it suits fireside reading, gift-giving, and anyone curious about how literary taste was packaged for the year. Robert Hamilton's selection offers a sentimental verse collection alongside prose that values character, domestic virtue, and the pleasures of language, making it equally inviting for the casual browser and the collector building a shelf of period annuals. 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. Whether discovered as a public domain ebook or sought in a complete text edition for your library, The May Flower For 1848 stands as a small, telling artefact of Victorian print culture: the beautifully bound yearly book that carried literature into everyday life, and carried everyday feeling into literature.

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