Details
Tales and Novels - Volume 2
1. Aufl.
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1,99 € |
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| Verlag: | OTB eBook publishing |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.01.2018 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783962722937 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 459 |
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Beschreibungen
Excerpt: PREFACE. Some author says, that a good book needs no apology; and, as a preface is usually an apology, a book enters into the world with a better grace without one. I, however, appeal to those readers who are not gluttons, but epicures, in literature, whether they do not wish to see the bill of fare? I appeal to monthly critics, whether a preface that gives a view of the pretensions of the writer is not a good thing? The author may overvalue his subject, and very naturally may overrate the manner in which it is treated; but still he will explain his views, and facilitate the useful and necessary art which the French call reading with the thumb. We call this hunting a book, a term certainly invented by a sportsman. I leave the reader to choose which he pleases, whilst I lay before him the contents and design of these volumes...
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