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Short stories, English - Early works to 1800

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    Miscellanies, in verse and prose. Written by the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Esq;

    Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. | Date: M.DCC.XX.V. [1725]
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    The Tatler. By the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; In two volumes. ...

    Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. | Date: 1777
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    Winter-evenings entertainment. Consisting of the best novels and histories that have been written in most languages being such, as at the same time they most agreeably amuse, enlarge the ideas of the mind, set virtue before the eyes of the reader in all its loveliness, and excite an almost irresistible emulation of great and good actions.

    | Date: MDCCLII. [1752]
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    A short story: interspersed with poetry. By a young lady. In two volumes. ...

    Young lady. | Date: 1800
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    Sline in an uproar; or The bastard goose. Being particulars of the labor of Molly Mansa, who was delivered of a miraculous goose, at Sline, near Lancaster, on Saturday evening, the 11th of November, 1784, carried on and conducted under the management of her mother and a pretended nurse, as a villanous means to obtain money.

    | Date: [1785?]
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