Penelope
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Description
Penelope; or, Love's Labour Lost is an anonymous novel in three volumes, of which this file holds the first. Hunt and Clarke printed it in London in 1828. The tale turns on the household of a learned clergyman, Doctor Gregory Greendale.
Six days out of seven, and nine hours out of twenty four, the narrator tells us, Greendale sat surrounded with open volumes, immersed in profound thoughts. For twenty years this was his practice. Nothing could have reconciled him to the dull monotony but a strong sense of duty, seasoned with a little theological ambition. His ambition was not for worldly honour or money. He aspired to a distinguished station among the defenders of the faith. He hoped to be famed as the most irrefragable polemic that ever reasoned. It was his opinion, we learn, that the church established by law was the best and purest in Christendom.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 333 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |