Memoirs of the Reign of King George III

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The publication of this four-volume edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III completes the monumental Yale Walpole Edition that also includes 48 volumes of correspondence and three volumes of Memoirs of King George II. Walpole's aim in Memoirs of the Reign of King George III was not to chronicle events year by year (October 1760 - February 1772), as he had done in Memoirs of King George II, but to defend what he called his "return to action" and to attack those who had thwarted it. Yet previous editors, first Sir Denis le Marchant in 1845 and then G. F. Russell Barker in 1894, abridged or altered much of what Walpole said about his friends and his enemies, and left out most of his lies and fantasies about the British Royal Family. These editors produced a narrative that seemed impersonal as well as impartial, the work of a detached spectator rather than a committed participant. The present edition is the first to go back to the manuscripts and give Walpole's text in its entirety, unabridged and unexpurgated, together with an introduction and annotation designed to help reassess the value of the memoirs as historical evidence.

沃波爾在《喬治三世國王統治回憶錄》中的目標不是像他在《喬治二世國王回憶錄》中所做的那樣，逐年（1760年1772月至1845年1894月）記錄事件，而是捍衛他所謂的“重返行動”並攻擊那些挫敗它的人。然而，以前的編輯，首先是丹尼斯·勒·馬尚爵士（Sir Denis le Marchant），然後是G·F·羅素·巴克（G. F. Russell Barker），刪節或修改了沃波爾關於他的朋友和敵人的大部分言論，並省略了他對英國王室的大部分謊言和幻想。這些編輯創作的敘事似乎既沒有人情味又公正，是一個超然的旁觀者而不是一個堅定的參與者的作品。本版是第一個回到手稿的版本，並完整地提供了沃波爾的文本，未刪節和未刪減，並附有引言和注釋，旨在幫助重新評估回憶錄作為歷史證據的價值。

Memoirs of the Reign of King George III

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