The Mysteries of Paris: A Novel; The Unloved One: A Domestic Story; Old St. Paul's

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Includes 3 novels published by Harper Bros. bound in a single volume: Eugene Sue's The Mysteries of Paris (originally a French-language 90-part serial), a melodrama depicting the v arious cultures and classes of modern Paris; Mrs. Hofland's The Unloved One (1844), touted as a "domestic" story that centres on a family's drama during a courtship; and William Harrison Ainsworth's Old St. Paul's (originally published in 1841) which dramatizes the story of the Great Fire of London in 1666. While the novels included are disparate in theme and character, together, they represent the diverse output of fiction in the Victorian era. Sue and Ainsworth in particular were influential novelists in their day. Ainsworth was even more popular than Dickens for a brief period in his career with his more famous Newgate novel, Jack Sheppard (1839). Show more