Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century, Paperback / softback Book

Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century Paperback / softback

Edited by Charles C. Mish

Paperback / softback

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The anthology is compiled by Charles C. Mish, a leading authority on English seventeenth-century fiction, and contains ten pieces published between 1609 and 1700.

In addition to a beast fable, an anti-romance, and a utopian fantasy, Mr. Mish includes and comments on: a moral tale, in which just retribution is visited upon the wicked; a "jest-biography," or jest-book cum biography forming a satirical roman a clef; and a frame story imitating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

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