The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time

Overview:

  • Title: The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time
  • Author: Ernest Rhys
  • Year: 1897
  • Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
  • Pages: viii+238
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Notes: The Story of the Lame Young Man (AKA The Tailor's Tale) is from the Arabian Nights. Cymon & Iphigenia from the Decameron is a modernized spelling of the 1620 English translation. The Story of Balin & Balan is from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The Story of Marcella, from Chapters IV-V of Don Quixote, is the 1755 translation by {{A|Tobias Smollett}}. The Story of Le Fevre is an excerpt from Chapter VI-XII of Vol.VI of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Andersen's The "Old Bachelor's" Nighcap is translated by Grace Rhys, the editor's wife.