Tales and Novels - Volume 4 (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Excerpt: 'PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the good...
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Excerpt: 'PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labours! The heroes of history are so decked out by the fine fancy of the professed historian; they talk in such measured prose, and act from such sublime or such diabolical motives, that few have sufficient taste, wickedness, or heroism, to sympathize in their fate. Besides, there is much uncertainty even in the best authenticated ancient or modern histories; and that love of truth, which in some minds is innate and immutable, necessarily leads to a love of secret memoirs and private anecdotes...'
Autoren-Porträt von Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 ¿ 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. (Wikipedia)
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- Autor: Maria Edgeworth
- 2018, 1. Auflage, 404 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Otbebookpublishing
- ISBN-10: 3962723021
- ISBN-13: 9783962723026
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2018
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