1896-1898 XIXth Century Classics: Alaric at Rome & Cranford

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Two volumes. From the XIXth Century Classics series. Edited by Clement King Shorter, a British journalist and literary critic. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. This set contains: Alaric of Rome and Other Poems, 1896. A collection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold, an English poet and cultural critic characterised as a sage writer. Containing his prize poem 'Alaric at Rome', offering a retelling of the Gothic leader Alaric I's sack of the city of Rome in 410 CE, a landmark event symbolizing the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Cranford, with Which is Included the Moorland Cottage, 1898. An episodic novel set in a small English village dominated by women, where men are conspicuously absent from social life. The narrative offers observations of the peculiar rituals, customs, and dynamics of the tight-knit community, primarily focusing on the lives of its female inhabitants. Written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.