AT that festive season, when the days are at the shortest, and the nights at the longest, and when, consequently, it is the invariable practice of all sensible people to turn night into day; when the state of the odds between business and pleasure is decidedly in favour of the latter; when high carnival is […]
William Harrison AINSWORTH (1805-1882) NOVELS Auriol, or The Elixir of Life–Text—HTML Boscobel, or the Royal Oak–Text—HTML Guy Fawkes, or The Gunpowder Treason–HTML Jack Sheppard – A Romance–Text— HTML The Lancashire Witches -A Romance of Pendle Forest–Text—HTML The Leaguer of Lathom–HTML Old Saint Paul’s -A Tale of the Plague and the Fire–Text—HTML Ovingdean Grange–HTML Preston Fight, […]