Book Description

Excerpt from The St. Joseph's Collegian, Vol. 5: March 1899 These are but a few instances, still they serve to show what way the wind blows. Every writer with what seems to him a new idea looks to the novel for an introduction to the public, because a novel from its nature and even from its name is expected to contain something new, startling, and outside the usual experience of man in a normal condition. What pleases us in Vanity Fair but the scintillating wickedness of Becky Sharp? There are no possibilities in Amelia. Anyone who has read the Waverly novels will remember Scott's pusillanimous heroes, and heroes are generally supposed to be the exponents of virtue. Abnormal characters always show well in a novel. The modern psychological novel is a rich proof that the novel that wins favor presses the bizarre into service. About the Publisher 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.