The Delicious Vice
by Young Ewing Allison
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About this eBook
- Author
- Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932
- Credits
- Text file produced by Ted Garvin, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Fiction -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 8686
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8686
- Release Date
- August 1, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DELICIOUS VICE — Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People
- 2.By Young E. Allison
- 3.I. A RHAPSODY ON THE NOBLE PROFESSION OF NOVEL READING
- 4.II. NOVEL-READERS — AS DISTINGUISHED FROM WOMEN AND NIBBLERS AND AMATEURS
- 5.III. READING THE FIRST NOVEL — BEING MOSTLY REMINISCENCES OF EARLY CRIMES AND JOYS
- 6.IV. THE FIRST NOVEL TO READ — CONTAINING SOME SCANDALOUS REMARKS ABOUT “ROBINSON CRUSOE”
- 7.V. THE OPEN POLAR SEA OF NOVELS — WITH HIGHLY INCENDIARY ADVICE TO BOYS AND SOME MORE ANCIENT HISTORY
- 8.VI. RASCALS — BEING A DISCOURSE UPON GOOD, HONEST SCOUNDRELISM AND VILLAINS.
- 9.VII. HEROES
- 10.VIII. HEROINES — A SUBJECT ALMOST WITHOUT AN OBJECT—WHY THERE ARE FEW HEROINES FOR MEN.
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