Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chesterfield’s life
* Concise introductions to the texts
* All the celebrated Letters, with individual contents tables
* Useful quotation editions of the more famous letters
* Features many rare prose works for the first time in digital publishing
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare poetry, speeches, dialogues and addresses only available in this eBook
* Important essays from periodicals
* Easily locate the texts you want to read
* Features a bonus biography – discover Chesterfield’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Letters
The Drapier’s Letter to the Good People of Ireland (1745)
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Principles of Politeness and of Knowing the World (1786)
Letters to His Godson (1890)
Other Correspondence
Letters, Sentences and Maxims (1903)
Quotations from ‘Letters to His Son’
Other Prose Works
Speeches in the House of Lords
Miscellaneous Addresses and Other Works
Essays in Periodicals
Dialogues
The Poetry
Miscellaneous Verses
The Biography
Philip Dormer Stanhope (1900) by Sidney Lee
