• Publication: Shorter Novels: Eighteenth CenturyPublication Record # 410280
• Author: Philip Henderson
• Date: 2010-12-27
• Catalog ID: 34766
• Publisher: Project Gutenberg
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• Type: OMNIBUS
• Notes: Transcription of the 1930 Everyman's Library edition, 1948 printing --from apparently complete title page transcript Title page transcript closes "First published in this edition 1903" over "Last reprinted 1948", but "1930" is correct; "1903" is Everyman's or Gutenberg's clerical error. Title page displays "RASSELAS—THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO—VATHEK" in a way that invites interpretation as a subtitle. This is volume 3 of Shorter Novels, introduction and notes by Henderson. See the anthology or omnibus record. This ebook contains a complete title page transcript but no other front or back material except the Contents list. It represents Everyman's page numbers in the right margin. In the Contents list only, all three fiction titles are fashioned with commas, no colons, and the Notes (print pages 279-306) are listed accurately as "Notes to Vathek". The heading of each Note contains linked "Page xxx.", such as "Page 195. Caliph".

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Shorter Novels: Eighteenth Century) • (1930) • essay by Philip Henderson
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia • (1930) • novel by Samuel Johnson (variant of The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 1759)
• The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story • (1811) • novel by Horace Walpole (variant of The Castle of Otranto 1764)
• Vathek: An Arabian Tale • [Vathek • 1] • (1834) • novel by William Beckford (trans. of Vathek 1786)
• Notes (Shorter Novels: Eighteenth Century) • (1930) • essay by Philip Henderson