Beware the Cat by William Baldwin

Beware the Cat by William Baldwin

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Beware the Cat by William Baldwin

This is the earliest original piece of long prose fiction in English. It has the distinction of being the first English 'novel', far surpassing in narrative sophistication such immediate predecessors as Elyot's Image of Governance or Borde's Scoggin's Jests. This edition, besides providing a modernising text of the novel, also identifies the pseudonymous author of Beware the Cat as William Baldwin, better known as editor and principal author of the enormously popular Mirror for Magistrates (1559). The development of early English prose fiction is thoroughly documented in two informative and wide-ranging appendices. William Baldwin's place in this tradition, as well as his innovative narrative art, is discussed in the introduction, which also provides biographical information on the author, historical background to his novel, and an insight into the political and religious turmoil of the middle years of the sixteenth century.
Baldwin, William P.: - William Baldwin is a lifelong resident of the South Carolina Lowcountry. He has authored and co-authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden, The Fennel Family Papers, The Hard to Catch Mercy, Heaven is a Beautiful Place, Inland Passages, and Mantelpieces of the Old South.
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ISBN 13 9780873281546
ISBN 10 0873281543
Titel Beware the Cat
Autor William Baldwin
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Huntington Library Press,US
Erscheinungsjahr 1995-01-01
Seitenanzahl 160
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