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1566

William Painter Clarke. The Palace of Pleasure. London: Henry Denham, 1566.

p.i Title page/ p.iii-x Dedication to Lord Ambrose, Earl of Warwick/ p.xi-xviii "Recapitulation" (Inhaltsverzeichnis)/ p.19-28 "To the Reader" (Preface)/ Fol. 1-339 (e.e. p.1-678, das Buch hat keine Seitenzählung) Novels 1-60. Eine Sammlung von 60 Novellen wörtlich: "Novels", der erste Titel, der das Wort "Novel", soweit ich sah, je in englischer Sprache verwendet, sehr interessant, da hier deutlich wird, daß "Novel" ursprünglich Novelle meint - das ändert sich später im 18. Jahrhundert, wenn "Novel" plötzlich das Wort für den langen Roman wird. Einige der Geschichten wurden 1720 von Delarivier Manley wieder erzählt in The Power of Love. Man sollte mal einen Vergleich machen - soweit ich sah, ist die Manley ausführlicher bei den Motivationen der Protagonisten. Nachfolgend Inhaltsangaben der einzelnen Geschichten mit Zählung der "folios", jedes folio sind zwei Seiten. 1 Novel 1: Titus Livius Inhaltsangabe mit Notiz interessanter Passagen. Jeweils Seitenzahlen am Rand mitlaufen lassen, so daß man sich später wieder zurechtfindet...

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• Write the way you yourself find it convenient - the excerpt is your personal kind of diary about what it was like to read this text.