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Didactic fiction, English - Early works to 1800

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    Histories, or tales of past times viz. I. The Little Red Riding-Hood. II. The fairy. III. The Blue Beard. IV. The Sleeping Beauty in the wood. V. The master cat, or Puss in Boots. VI. Cinderilla, or the Little Glass Slipper. Vii. Riquet a la houpe. Viii. Little Poucet, and his Brothers. IX. The discreet princess, or the Adventures of Finetta. With morals. By M. Perrault. Translated into English.

    Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. | Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]
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    The transmigrating soul or, an Epitome of Human Nature. A moral satire. By Lieutenant John Slade, Of His Majesty's Tenth Company of Marines.

    Slade, John, d. 1760. | Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]
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    Solitudinis munus or, Hints for Thinking.

    Anthony Hammond | Date: 1721
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    Moral tales in verse , founded on real events. Written by Thomas Hull, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. Dedicated, by Permission, to his Grace the Duke of Leeds.

    Hull, Thomas, 1728-1808. | Date: 1797
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    The force of prejudice , a moral tale, in two volumes.

    Wildman, Joseph | Date: 1799
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