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The Ex-Classics Web Site In Preparation The Newgate Calendar -- Supplement 4. We have located a further batch of felons in a facsimile of Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by John Osborn (1735). These will be added to the over 1,100 cases already in our edition.  The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas, by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray First published in Paris in 1787, just before the French Revolution, this novel was very popular in its own country in part because it satirised the effeteness and corruption of the French aristocracy. Being very mildly salacious, it was only published in English covertly in small private editions. Ours is the first edition since a limited printing of 100 copies in 1898.  Our Town, by Patrick Sugrue. Generations of Irish schoolchildren have had to read An Baile Seo 'Gainne by "An Seabhac," First published in 1912, it is a collection of humorous or wry sketches and stories. There is however no English translation available -- until ours.

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