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Charles Bucke

1781–1846

An English writer of history, language, nature, and drama, he kept publishing through years of hardship and built a varied body of work that reached a wide nineteenth-century readership.

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Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition

Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition

by Charles Bucke

Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition

Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition

by Charles Bucke

About the author

Charles Bucke was an English writer born in Suffolk in 1781 and died in 1846. Sources agree that he worked in difficult financial circumstances for much of his life, yet he still produced a substantial range of books and plays.

His writing was notably wide-ranging. He is associated with works on English grammar, classical subjects, biography, nature, and historical themes, including Ruins of Ancient Cities and On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature. That mix of educational and literary interests helps explain why his books continued to circulate well beyond his lifetime.

There appears to be only limited biographical detail readily available about his personal life, but the broad outline is clear: he was a hardworking nineteenth-century man of letters whose career was shaped as much by persistence as by fame.