Hieroglyphic Tales
- Length
- 1 h 21 min
- Chapters
- 7
- Language
- English
- First published
- 1785
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for private amusement... an attempt to vary the stale and beaten class of stories and novels, which, though works of invention, are almost always devoid of imagination...." Horace Walpole - Summary by barbara2
Chapters
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