Download or read book Tales of Fashionable Life, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of Fashionable Life, Vol. 1 All the parts of this series of moral fictions bear upon the faults and excellences of different ages and classes; and they have all arisen from that view of society, which we have laid before the public in more didactic works on education. In the "Parents' Assistant," in "Moral" and in "Popular Tales," it was my daughter's aim to exemplify the principles contained in "Practical Education." In these volumes, and in others which are to follow, she endeavours to disseminate, in a familiar form, some of the ideas that are unfolded in "Essays on Professional Education." The first of these stories is called Ennui - The causes, curses, and cure of this disease are exemplified, I hope, in such a manner, as not to make the remedy worse than the disease. Thiebauld tells us, that a prize essay on Ennui was read to the Academy of Berlin, which put all the judges to sleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.