The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 By: Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916)
First Page: [Transcriber's Note: This e text is intended for readers who cannot use the "real" (utf 8) version of the file. Characters that could not be correctly displayed have been "unpacked" and shown between brackets: [OE] [oe] oe ligature [~e] [~m] letters with overline or nasal mark [.:.] three dots ("therefore" symbol) One Greek word has been transliterated and shown between marks. The first seven pages of the printed book have been moved to the end of the e text, before the Errata. In the primary text, possible errors are noted but not changed. Word initial "u" and medial "v" are in the original. See end of text for full explanation of [brackets], {braces}, (parentheses) and asterisks.] The PALACE OF PLEASURE Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Margaret of Navarre, and Others Done Into English By WILLIAM PAINTER Now Again Edited For The Fourth Time By JOSEPH JACOBS VOL. I. [Illustration: Publisher's Device] London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand MDCCCXC Ballantyne Press Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. Edinburgh and London To EDWARD BURNE JONES TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME I. Page Preface ix Introduction xi Preliminary Matter (From Haslewood) xxxvii Appendix of Documents Relating to Painter liii Analytical Table of Contents of the Whole Work lxiii Index of Novels xcii TOME I. Title (Facsimile of First Edition) 1 Dedication to Earl of Warwick 3 List of Authors 9 To the Reader 10 Novel I. Horatii and Curiatii 15 II. Rape of Lucrece 22 III. Mucius Scævola 26 IV. Coriolanus 29 V. Appius and Virginia 35 VI. Candaules and Gyges 46 VII. Cr[oe]sus and Solon 49 VIII. Rhacon and Cartomes 53 IX. Artaxerxes and Sinetas 54 X. Chariton and Menalippus 56 XI. Cyrus and Panthea 58 XII. Abdolominus King of Scythia 69 XIII. Alexander and the Scythian Ambassadors 71 XIV. Metellus on Marriage 74 XV. Lais and Demosthenes 77 XVI. Fabricius and Pyrrhus 78 XVII. Camillus and Schoolmaster 80 XVIII. Papyrius Prætextatus 83 XIX. Plutarch's Anger 85 XX. Aesop's Fable of the Lark 86 XXI. Hannibal and Antiochus 88 XXII. Androdus ( Androcles ) 89 XXIII. Favorinus 91 XXIV. Sertorius 95 XXV. Sibylline Leaves 98 XXVI. Master and Scholar 99 XXVII. Seleucus and Antiochus 102 XXVIII. Timon of Athens 112 XXIX. Marriage of Widow and Widower 114 XXX. The Three Rings 116 XXXI... Continue reading book >>

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 By: Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916)

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The

PALACE OF PLEASURE

Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Margaret of Navarre, and Others

Done Into English

By WILLIAM PAINTER

Now Again Edited For The Fourth Time

By JOSEPH JACOBS

VOL. I.

[Illustration: Publisher's Device]

London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand

MDCCCXC

Ballantyne Press Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. Edinburgh and London

To EDWARD BURNE JONES

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME I. Page Preface ix Introduction xi Preliminary Matter (From Haslewood) xxxvii Appendix of Documents Relating to Painter liii Analytical Table of Contents of the Whole Work lxiii Index of Novels xcii

TOME I.

Title (Facsimile of First Edition) 1 Dedication to Earl of Warwick 3 List of Authors 9 To the Reader 10 Novel I. Horatii and Curiatii 15 II. Rape of Lucrece 22 III. Mucius Scævola 26 IV. Coriolanus 29 V. Appius and Virginia 35 VI. Candaules and Gyges 46 VII. Cr[oe]sus and Solon 49 VIII. Rhacon and Cartomes 53 IX. Artaxerxes and Sinetas 54 X. Chariton and Menalippus 56 XI. Cyrus and Panthea 58 XII. Abdolominus King of Scythia 69 XIII. Alexander and the Scythian Ambassadors 71 XIV. Metellus on Marriage 74 XV. Lais and Demosthenes 77 XVI. Fabricius and Pyrrhus 78 XVII. Camillus and Schoolmaster 80 XVIII. Papyrius Prætextatus 83 XIX. Plutarch's Anger 85 XX. Aesop's Fable of the Lark 86 XXI. Hannibal and Antiochus 88 XXII. Androdus ( Androcles ) 89 XXIII. Favorinus 91 XXIV. Sertorius 95 XXV. Sibylline Leaves 98 XXVI. Master and Scholar 99 XXVII. Seleucus and Antiochus 102 XXVIII. Timon of Athens 112 XXIX. Marriage of Widow and Widower 114 XXX. The Three Rings 116 XXXI... Continue reading book >>

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