The Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-century classics, in modern English.
The novel was invented here, and invented in public: castaways, foundlings, letters between women, satires so sharp their targets sued. Nothing about the form was settled yet, which is why these books still feel like experiments rather than monuments. Each Aeneas Press edition presents the complete work with spelling and punctuation in present-day American usage, illustrated with credited full-page plates.
The editions
15 in this collection
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