George Saintsbury  

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George Saintsbury (1845 – 1933), was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur.

He is the author of History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), The English Novel (1913) and A History of the French Novel (c. 1919).

Bibliography

• Primer of French Literature (1880)
• French Lyrics (1st ed., 1882)
• A Short History of French Literature (1882); 5th Ed., "With the Section on the 19th Cent. Greatly Enlarged" (1897)
• Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay (1885) (alternative copy)
• A History of Elizabethan Literature (1887) (alternative: Copy I and Copy II; Project Gutenberg)
• As Translator and Editor: Essays on English Literature (1889) by Edmond Scherer. Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX (1890) by Prosper Mérimée. Les Chouans (1891) by Balzac. Corinne (1894, 2 vols.) by Madame de Stael. Moral Tales (1895) by Marmontel.
• As Series Editor for The Pocket Library of English Literature: Tales of Mystery: Mrs. Radcliffe, Lewis, Maturin (1891). Political Verse (1891). Selections from Defoe’s Minor Novels (1892). Political Pamphlets (1892). Seventeenth Century Lyrics (1893). Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets (1892).
• Miscellaneous Essays (1895)
• As Series Editor: The 12 volumes of Periods of European Literature, Blackwood & Sons (1890s-1900s)
  • As author: The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Vol. 2 of Periods of European Literature series, 1897)
  • As author: The Earlier Renaissance (Vol. 5 of Periods of European Literature series, 1901)
  • As author: The Later Nineteenth Century (Vol. 12 of Periods of European Literature series, 1907)
• A Short History of English Literature (1898) (alternative copy)
• A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day (1900–04). Vol. I: Classical and Mediæval Criticism. Vol. II: From the Renaissance to the Decline of Eighteenth Century Orthodoxy.Vol. III: Modern Criticism.
• Loci Critici: Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice from Aristotle Downwards (1903)
• A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day (1906–10). Vol. I: From the Origins to Spenser. Vol. II: From Shakespeare to Crabbe. Vol. III: From Blake to Mr. Swinburne. (alternatives: Vol. I; Vol. II, Vol. III)
• Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910) (alternatives: Copy I; Copy II; Copy III; Project Gutenberg)
• History of English Prose Rhythm (1912), containing an essay entitled, 'Authorised Version and the Triumph of the Ornate Style.'
• The English Novel (1913) (alternative copy)
• A First Book of English Literature (1914)
• The Peace of The Augustans; A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as a Place of Rest and Refreshment (1916)
• A History of the French Novel to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1917-19). Vol. I: From the Beginning to 1800. Vol. II: From 1800 to 1900.
• Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920)
• A Scrap Book (1922), A Second Scrap Book (1923), A Last Scrap Book (1924)
• Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (1921). Vol. I; Vol. II; Vol. III; Vol. III
• Collected Essays and Papers, 1875-1920 (1924). Volume 1: Essays in English Literature. Volume 2: Essays in English Literature. Volume 3: Miscellaneous Essays. Volume 4: Essays in French Literature.
• A Consideration of Thackeray (1931)
• Prefaces and Essays (1933)
• The Memorial Volume (1945)
• A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers, ed. John W. Oliver, et al. (1950)
• "English Versification". Introduction to The Rhymers' Lexicon, by Andrew Loring. (2nd ed., revised, 1920).

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