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Charles Reade

1814–1884 2 volumes Literary Classics · Adventure & the Sea
Put Yourself in His Place — cover The Cloister and the Hearth — cover

The life

Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist who campaigned in fiction against the abuses of his day — private asylums, brutal prisons, trade union violence — and kept vast notebooks of newspaper cuttings to document every charge. The Cloister and the Hearth, his historical novel of the father of Erasmus, was called by Swinburne the greatest historical novel in the language.

Paintings from these volumes
Festival of the Archers
Festival of the Archers Master of Frankfurt
A Concert
A Concert Lorenzo Costa
The Triumphs of Caesar: 2. The Bearers of Standards and Siege Equipment
The Triumphs of Caesar: 2. The Bearers of Standards and Siege Equipment Andrea Mantegna
Archangele Raffaele con Tobiolo e un giovane.
Archangele Raffaele con Tobiolo e un giovane. Francesco Botticini
A Miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo
A Miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo Leonardo da Vinci
Adoration of the Child with Young St. John and St. Dominic and Bernard of Clairvaux
Adoration of the Child with Young St. John and St. Dominic and Bernard of Clairvaux Jacopo da Sellaio
The Market Place, St Albans
The Market Place, St Albans George Jones
Cottage in Halland
Cottage in Halland Kilian Zoll
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In the library

2 volumes by Reade

The whole library
Put Yourself in His Place — cover
Literary Classics

Put Yourself in His Place

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The Cloister and the Hearth — cover
Adventure & the Sea

The Cloister and the Hearth

$6.99