A Book of English Prose / Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
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This description of Old San Francisco's Chinatown has been taken from Charles Warren Stoddard's book, entitled In the Footprints of the Padres, which contains his memories of early days in California.
Chapters (34)
- KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- PAGE
- ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
- SIR WALTER RALEGH 1552-1618
- FRANCIS BACON 1561-1626
- WILLIAM DRUMMOND 1585-1649
- THOMAS HOBBES 1588-1679
- SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1605-1682
- JOHN MILTON 1608-1674
- EARL OF CLARENDON 1609-1674
- JOHN BUNYAN 1628-1688
- SAMUEL PEPYS 1633-1703
- DANIEL DEFOE 1660-1731
- JONATHAN SWIFT 1667-1745
- JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1719
- LAURENCE STERNE 1713-1768
- HORACE WALPOLE 1717-1797
- EDMUND BURKE 1729-1797
- WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800
- JAMES BOSWELL 1740-1795
- SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832
- WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775-1864
- JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817
- WILLIAM HAZLITT 1778-1830
- THOMAS DE QUINCEY 1785-1859
- THOMAS CARLYLE 1795-1881
- LORD MACAULAY 1800-1859
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804-1864
- CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870
- CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1816-1855
- GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) 1819-1880
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850-1894
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