MONOLOGUES OF THE DEAD

by Steevens

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Methuen & Co., 1896. Octavo, original maroon cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. Dramatic monologues, in prose, by twenty-one historical figures from classical Greece and Rome, repeating to some extent Browning's strategy of juxtaposing the profound and the mundane. Most of these sketches previously appeared in the NATIONAL OBSERVER or in the NEW REVIEW. Cloth worn at spine ends,

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