2014, ISBN: 1497339081

[EAN: 9781497339088], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. "-if a word could save me, and that word were not the … More...

[EAN: 9781497339088], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. "-if a word could save me, and that word were not the Truth, nay, if it did but swerve a hair's-breadth from the Truth, I would not say it!"-LONGFELLOW. Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was. "The mission of the novelist, my dear Professor," he had once been heard to say at his club, "is not to amuse merely; his work is that of an historian, and he should be quite as careful to write truthfully as is the historian. How is the future to know what manner of lives we nineteenth century people have lived unless our novelists tell the truth?" "Possibly the historians will tell them," observed the Professor of Mathematics. "Historians sometimes do tell us interesting things." "True," said Harley. "Very true; but then what historian ever let you into the secret of the every-day life of the people of whom he writes? What historian ever so vitalized Louis the Fourteenth as Dumas has vitalized him?<

2014, ISBN: 1497339081

[EAN: 9781497339088], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. "-if a word could save me, and that word were not the … More...

[EAN: 9781497339088], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. "-if a word could save me, and that word were not the Truth, nay, if it did but swerve a hair's-breadth from the Truth, I would not say it!"-LONGFELLOW. Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was. "The mission of the novelist, my dear Professor," he had once been heard to say at his club, "is not to amuse merely; his work is that of an historian, and he should be quite as careful to write truthfully as is the historian. How is the future to know what manner of lives we nineteenth century people have lived unless our novelists tell the truth?" "Possibly the historians will tell them," observed the Professor of Mathematics. "Historians sometimes do tell us interesting things." "True," said Harley. "Very true; but then what historian ever let you into the secret of the every-day life of the people of whom he writes? What historian ever so vitalized Louis the Fourteenth as Dumas has vitalized him?<

2014, ISBN: 1497339081

[EAN: 9781497339088], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. "-if a word could save me, and that word were not the T… More...

[EAN: 9781497339088], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. "-if a word could save me, and that word were not the Truth, nay, if it did but swerve a hair's-breadth from the Truth, I would not say it!"-LONGFELLOW. Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was. "The mission of the novelist, my dear Professor," he had once been heard to say at his club, "is not to amuse merely; his work is that of an historian, and he should be quite as careful to write truthfully as is the historian. How is the future to know what manner of lives we nineteenth century people have lived unless our novelists tell the truth?" "Possibly the historians will tell them," observed the Professor of Mathematics. "Historians sometimes do tell us interesting things." "True," said Harley. "Very true; but then what historian ever let you into the secret of the every-day life of the people of whom he writes? What historian ever so vitalized Louis the Fourteenth as Dumas has vitalized him?<

ISBN: 9781497339088

-if a word could save me, and that word were not the Truth, nay, if it did but swerve a hair's-breadth from the Truth, I would not say it!-LONGFELLOW.Stuart Harley, despite his authorship… More...

-if a word could save me, and that word were not the Truth, nay, if it did but swerve a hair's-breadth from the Truth, I would not say it!-LONGFELLOW.Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was.The mission of the novelist, my dear Professor, he had once been heard to say at his club, is not to amuse merely; his work is that of an historian, and he should be quite as careful to write truthfully as is the historian. How is the future to know what manner of lives we nineteenth century people have lived unless our novelists tell the truth?Possibly the historians will tell them, observed the Professor ofMathematics. Historians sometimes do tell us interesting things.True, said Harley. Very true; but then what historian ever let you into the secret of the every-day life of the people of whom he writes? What historian ever so vitalized Louis the Fourteenth as Dumas has vitalized him? Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

2014, ISBN: 1497339081

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