Essays on the Novel: As Illustrated by Scott and Miss. Austen (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Essays on the Novel: As Illustrated by Scott and Miss. Austen

The novel as a whole, or to furnish its readers with a minute critical account of Scott and Miss Austen. Every Observer of the literature of the present day is aware that among the many tendencies to be seen at work in contemporary fiction, there is one especially noticeable, leading to the composition Of tales in which the interest of the characters is frankly subordinated to that.

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Excerpt from Essays on the Novel: As Illustrated by Scott and Miss. Austen

In a history of prose fiction which the author read many years ago, he remembers vividly a passage in which the advantages of a good title were extolled. For himself he is free to confess that he had difficulty in finding a title at once accurately setting forth the purport of the following pages, and of a printable length. The present work does not propose either to treat of the novel as a whole, or to furnish its readers with a minute critical account of Scott and Miss Austen.

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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.