Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

Narrators: Jim Locke, Annyiee Hill, Bruce Pirie, Corrinne LePage, Lynda Marie Neilson, Greg Giordano, Frederick O'Brien, LindseyS

Number of Chapters: 62

Length: 25 hours and 53 minutes

Language: English

This is the third and final volume of Isaac D'Israeli's monumental work Curiosities of Literature. It covers a great range of diverse topics, by no means limited to literature only, but also containing numerous essays on history, politics, and customs of English society. Therefore, this book will not only interest students of literature, but any reader should be able to find something matching his or her particular interests. - Summary by Carolin

Local Descriptions (Jim Locke)

Masques (Jim Locke)

Of des Maizeaux, and the secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts (Jim Locke)

History of new Words (Jim Locke)

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 1 (Jim Locke)

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 2 (Jim Locke)

The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 3 (Jim Locke)

Confusion of Words (Annyiee Hill)

Political Nicknames (Bruce Pirie)

The domestic Life of a Poet - Shenstone vindicated (Corrinne LePage)

Secret History of the Building of Blenheim (Annyiee Hill)

Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh (Jim Locke)

An authentic Narrative of the last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Literary Unions (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Of a Biography Painted (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Cause and Pretext (Bruce Pirie)

Political Forgeries and Fictions (Annyiee Hill)

Expression of suppressed Opinion (Bruce Pirie)

Autographs (Bruce Pirie)

The History of Writing-masters (Jim Locke)

The Italian Historians (Jim Locke)

Of Palaces built by Ministers (Jim Locke)

'Taxation no Tyranny' (Jim Locke)

The Book of Death (Jim Locke)

History of the Skeleton of Death (Jim Locke)

The Rival Biographers of Heylin (Jim Locke)

Of Lenglet du Fresnoy (Jim Locke)

The Dictionary of Trevoux (Jim Locke)

Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry (Jim Locke)

'Political Religionism' (Greg Giordano)

Toleration (Annyiee Hill)

Apology for the Parisian Massacre (Jim Locke)

Prediction, part 1 (Jim Locke)

Prediction, part 2 (Jim Locke)

Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy (Annyiee Hill)

On Puck the Commentator (Frederick O'Brien)

Literary Forgeries (Jim Locke)

Of Literary Filchers (Greg Giordano)

Of Lord Bacon at Home (Jim Locke)

Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth (Bruce Pirie)

James the First as a Father and a Husband (Bruce Pirie)

The Man of one Book (Bruce Pirie)

A Bibliognoste (Jim Locke)

Secret History of an elective Monarchy (Jim Locke)

Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country (Jim Locke)

Royal Proclamations (Jim Locke)

True Sources of secret History (Annyiee Hill)

Literary Residences (Bruce Pirie)

Whether allowable to ruin oneself? (Bruce Pirie)

Discoveries of secluded Men (Bruce Pirie)

Sentimental Biography (Jim Locke)

Literary Parallels (Annyiee Hill)

The Pearl Bibles, and six Thousand Errata (LindseyS)

View of a particular Period of the State of Religion in our Civil Wars (LindseyS)

Buckingham’s political Coquetry with the Puritans (Greg Giordano)

Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions against the high Sheriff’s Oath (Annyiee Hill)

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 1 (Corrinne LePage)

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 2 (Corrinne LePage)

Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 3 (Corrinne LePage)

The Rump (Jim Locke)

Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 1 (Jim Locke)

Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 2 (Jim Locke)

The audiobook Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 falls under the genres of History, Literary Criticism. It is written by Isaac D'israeli.

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