Author: Thomas Day
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The History of Sandford and Merton was one of the best-selling children's books written by Thomas Day. He created it as a contribution to Richard Lovell and Honora Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy, a collection of short stories for children that Maria Edgeworth continued some years after Honora died.
Author: Day Thomas
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781318972456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Thomas Day
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-21
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780483588967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The History of Sandford and Merton: Intended for the Use of Children Description of Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton - Adventure with the Snake - Harryin Mr Merton's house - Mr Barlow undertakes the education of Tommy - The first day at Mr Barlow's - Story of the Flies and the Ants - Harry rescues a Chicken from a Kite Story of the Gentleman and the Basket-maker - Tommy learns to read - Story of the two dogs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0465065732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife, prize-winning historian Wendy Moore’s captivating tale of one man’s mission to groom his ideal mate. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Foundling Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. After six months he discarded one girl, calling her “invincibly stupid,” and focused his efforts on his remaining charge. He subjected her to a number of cruel trials—including dropping hot wax on her arms and firing pistols at her skirts—to test her resolve but the young woman, perhaps unsurprisingly, eventually rebelled against her domestic slavery. Day had hoped eventually to marry her, but his peculiar experiment inevitably backfired—though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism—and deep contradictions—at the heart of the Enlightenment.