Amenities of Literature

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Isaac D'Israeli’s Amenities of Literature was published in 1841, when the author was seventy-five years old. The title was adopted to connect it with two preceding volumes, Curiosities of Literature and Miscellanies of Literature. As the author writes in the preface, this book was intended to form a portion of a much larger work that was never completed. A history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design, not to furnish an ari