The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children - Softcover

Edgeworth, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1522904387 ISBN 13: 9781522904380

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the people of Naples will not taste fireworks. My poor little rockets, and even my Catherine's-wheels, will have no effect: I am glad to part with all I have in this line of business. A few days ago I had fine things in readiness for the Countess di F.'s birth-day, which was to have been celebrated at the Count's villa." " Why do you fix your eyes on me, friend? What is your discourse to me?" said Pietro, who imagined that the man fixed his eyes upon him as he mentioned the name of the Count's villa. "I did not know that I fixed my eyes upon you; I was thinking of my fireworks," said the man simply: " but now that I do look at you, and hear your voice, I recollect having had the pleasure of seeing you before." " When? where?" said Pietro. ' A great while ago; no wonder you have forgotten me," said the man; " but I can recall the night to your recollection--you were in the street with me the night I let off that unlucky rocket which frightened the horses, and was the cause of overturning a lady's coach. Don't you remember the circumstance? "I have a confused recollection of some such thing," said Pietro, in great embarrassment, and he looked suspiciously at this man, in doubt whether he was cunning, and wanted to sound him, or whether he was so simple as he appeared. "Tou did not perhaps hear, then," continued the man, "that there was a great search made, after the overturn, for a fine diamond cross, belonging to the lady in the carriage? That lady, though I did not know it till lately, was the Countess di F." " I know nothing of the matter," interrupted Pietro, in great agitation. His confusion was so marked, that the firework maker cou...

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About the Author:

Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1522904387
• ISBN 13: 9781522904380
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142