The Threshold of English ProseH. A. Treble Cambridge University Press, 2014 M06 12 - 252 pages Originally published in 1930, this book was written to provide younger readers with examples from various forms of English prose, excluding the novel. The text is divided into seven main sections encompassing essays, letters, biography, travel writing, nature writing, history and public speeches. Each section begins with an editorial introduction and exercises are included at the end. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English prose and the history of education. |
Contents
THE ESSAY | 1 |
A Description of a Club of Authors Oliver Goldsmith | 13 |
The Superannuated Man Charles Lamb | 24 |
At Madame Tussauds J B Priestley | 34 |
THE LETTER | 40 |
To William Temple Dorothy Osborne | 48 |
To Richard West Thomas Gray | 55 |
To James Macpherson Samuel Johnson | 63 |
TRAVEL | 107 |
Journeying in Spain George Borrow | 118 |
Turkish Travelling A W Kinglake | 134 |
NATURE | 150 |
A Remarkable Frost Gilbert White | 157 |
An Amazing Summer Gilbert White page | 161 |
HISTORY | 171 |
PUBLIC SPEECHES | 197 |
To David Garrick James Boswell page | 64 |
BIOGRAPHY | 72 |
Miltons Juvenile Poems Samuel Johnson | 78 |
First Meeting with Dr Johnson James Boswell | 86 |
Nelsons Boyhood and Early Youth Robert Southey | 94 |
The Angel of Death John Bright | 205 |
The Eternal Boy Stanley Baldwin | 211 |
A NOTE ON THE NOVEL | 218 |
EXERCISES | 231 |
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