Contributions

  • Kate Lilley (Editor, Introduction) - Contributor

Publication

1994-10-01 - Penguin Classics

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100140433724
  • ISBN-139780140433722
  • Goodreads354620
  • LibraryThing29429
  • Open LibraryOL7354835M

First Sentence

A noble gentleman that had been married many years, but his wife being barren, did bear him no children; at last she died, and his friends did advise him to marry again, because his brother's children were dead, and his wife was likely to have no more: so he took to wife a virtuous young Lady, and after one year she conceived with child, and great joy there was of all sides: but in her child-bed she died, leaving only one daughter to her sorrowful husband, who in a short time, oppressed with melancholy, died, and left his young daughter, who was not a year old, to the care and breeding of his brother, and withal left her a great estate, for he was very rich.

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