Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... NEW NOVEL, BY MISS BUNBUEY. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., OUR OWN STORY. By SELINA BUNBURY, Author of "A Summer in Northern Europe," &c. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "This is a work of unquestionable genius. The story is one full of interest; it is managed with consummate skill, animated by characters touched by the hand of an artist, and well fitted to enlist the sympathy of the reader, while there is an eloquent simplicity in Miss Bunbury's style, equally remote from careless negligence and from straining after point and epigram. It is a work that will hardly be laid down unread when once taken up."--Morning Chronicle. 'This is a story of that meritorious class which, entering the world with the view of improving and amusing it, effectively accomplishes both purposes. Unlike the frivolous literature of the drawing-room, it does more than excite the curiosity of the reader by the interesting complication of events and adventures, and the animating development of the plot. It exhibits throughout a learned spirit of observation, and has much of both tender and lofty feeling. The vitality and versatility of original genius are apparent in every chapter: there is life in it. It abounds with deep thought and brilliant imagination, and displays, in equal proportions, humour, invention, and acute observation. Some of the scenes are pathetic in a very powerful degree, and such of them as are in the main of a lively and mirthful character are occasionally softened and relieved by touches of unexpected tenderness and tragic emotion."--Morning Post. "Written not only with great literary power, but with deep feeling, this interesting tale unfolds the inner realities of the soul's life, portraying in a style singularly effective the human...