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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1 [of 2]

Chapter 1: SHELLEY’S PROSE WORKS VOL. I.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A collected volume assembles early Gothic romances, political pamphlets, a refutation of deism, travel letters, essays on art and literature, critical notices, and various fragments and minor pieces. The fictional tales deliver dramatic scenes of revenge, abduction, and confinement, while the pamphlets set out radical proposals and a declaration of rights. The essays and letters offer close readings of sculpture and painting, personal reflections, and literary criticism. Alternating narrative, polemic, and aesthetic commentary, the material showcases a range of prose registers from vivid description to philosophical argument and intimate correspondence.

SHELLEY’S PROSE WORKS
VOL. I.

In Five Volumes, crown 8vo, cloth boards, 3s. 6d. each.

THE COMPLETE WORKS
IN VERSE AND PROSE OF
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by
RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

Poetical Works, in Three Volumes.

Vol. I. Introduction by the Editor; Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Shelley’s Correspondence with Stockdale; The Wandering Jew (the only complete version); Queen Mab, with the Notes; Alastor, and other Poems; Rosalind and Helen; Prometheus Unbound; Adonais, &c.

Vol. II. Laon and Cythna (as originally published, instead of the emasculated “Revolt of Islam”); The Cenci; Julian and Maddalo (from Shelley’s manuscript); Swellfoot the Tyrant (from the copy in the Dyce Library at South Kensington); The Witch of Atlas; Epipsychidion; Hellas.

Vol. III. Posthumous Poems, published by Mrs. Shelley in 1824 and 1839; The Masque of Anarchy (from Shelley’s manuscript); and other pieces not brought together in the ordinary editions.

Prose Works, in Two Volumes.

Vol. I. The two Romances of Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne; the Dublin and Marlow Pamphlets; A Refutation of Deism; Letters to Leigh Hunt, and some Minor Writings and Fragments.

Vol. II. Essays: Letters from Abroad; Translations and Fragments, edited by Mrs. Shelley, and first published in 1840, with the addition of some Minor Pieces of great interest and rarity, including one recently discovered by Professor Dowden. With a Bibliography of Shelley, and an exhaustive Index of the Prose Works.

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