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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

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This is the third and final volume of Isaac D'Israeli's monumental work Curiosities of Literature. It covers a great range of diverse topics, by no means limited to literature only, but also containing numerous essays on history, politics, and customs of English society. Therefore, this book will not only interest students of literature, but any reader should be able to find something matching his or her particular interests. - Summary by Carolin (25 hr 53 min)

Chapters

Local Descriptions

9:30

Read by Jim Locke

Masques

27:06

Read by Jim Locke

Of des Maizeaux, and the secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts

28:30

Read by Jim Locke

History of new Words

30:19

Read by Jim Locke

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 1

33:13

Read by Jim Locke

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 2

33:40

Read by Jim Locke

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 3

26:54

Read by Jim Locke

Confusion of Words

45:12

Read by Annyiee Hill

Political Nicknames

28:04

Read by Bruce Pirie

The domestic Life of a Poet - Shenstone vindicated

33:31

Read by Corrinne LePage

Secret History of the Building of Blenheim

26:25

Read by Annyiee Hill

Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh

39:00

Read by Jim Locke

An authentic Narrative of the last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh

22:18

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Literary Unions

19:21

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Of a Biography Painted

19:33

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Cause and Pretext

9:42

Read by Bruce Pirie

Political Forgeries and Fictions

17:01

Read by Annyiee Hill

Expression of suppressed Opinion

40:13

Read by Bruce Pirie

Autographs

11:54

Read by Bruce Pirie

The History of Writing-masters

29:29

Read by Jim Locke

The Italian Historians

29:36

Read by Jim Locke

Of Palaces built by Ministers

20:21

Read by Jim Locke

'Taxation no Tyranny'

22:40

Read by Jim Locke

The Book of Death

20:41

Read by Jim Locke

History of the Skeleton of Death

27:29

Read by Jim Locke

The Rival Biographers of Heylin

20:18

Read by Jim Locke

Of Lenglet du Fresnoy

25:33

Read by Jim Locke

The Dictionary of Trevoux

12:28

Read by Jim Locke

Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry

17:00

Read by Jim Locke

'Political Religionism'

19:55

Read by Greg Giordano

Toleration

31:49

Read by Annyiee Hill

Apology for the Parisian Massacre

15:37

Read by Jim Locke

Prediction, part 1

25:35

Read by Jim Locke

Prediction, part 2

33:03

Read by Jim Locke

Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy

51:29

Read by Annyiee Hill

On Puck the Commentator

15:03

Read by Frederick O'Brien

Literary Forgeries

37:02

Read by Jim Locke

Of Literary Filchers

14:40

Read by Greg Giordano

Of Lord Bacon at Home

21:56

Read by Jim Locke

Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth

14:44

Read by Bruce Pirie

James the First as a Father and a Husband

13:36

Read by Bruce Pirie

The Man of one Book

9:49

Read by Bruce Pirie

A Bibliognoste

20:07

Read by Jim Locke

Secret History of an elective Monarchy

50:21

Read by Jim Locke

Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country

23:34

Read by Jim Locke

Royal Proclamations

29:05

Read by Jim Locke

True Sources of secret History

39:52

Read by Annyiee Hill

Literary Residences

18:34

Read by Bruce Pirie

Whether allowable to ruin oneself?

26:31

Read by Bruce Pirie

Discoveries of secluded Men

16:11

Read by Bruce Pirie

Sentimental Biography

38:39

Read by Jim Locke

Literary Parallels

7:08

Read by Annyiee Hill

The Pearl Bibles, and six Thousand Errata

16:22

Read by LindseyS

View of a particular Period of the State of Religion in our Civil Wars

30:50

Read by LindseyS

Buckingham’s political Coquetry with the Puritans

11:46

Read by Greg Giordano

Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions against the high Sheriff’s Oath

3:12

Read by Annyiee Hill

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 1

38:45

Read by Corrinne LePage

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 2

33:26

Read by Corrinne LePage

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 3

24:45

Read by Corrinne LePage

The Rump

30:35

Read by Jim Locke

Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 1

31:51

Read by Jim Locke

Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 2

30:59

Read by Jim Locke