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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...if not impertinent one. Fancy a mere critic telling a successful Artist that he is wasting his time--squinting the wrong way Yet this artist promptly wrote a long letter thanking his critic, not for having been agreeable, but for having hit upon the truth. "As to your conclusions," he said, "I believe you are just; and your article reached me at an important moment." Sweet and consoling hour for the homely slighted one --hour in which he once more assures himself, greatly daring (as the lady novelists say) that he may be not that figure of fun, the " genteel critic," but a man doing a mans work, --not altogether in vain. As for the state of American fiction, of American art as a whole, doesnt it need to be looked upon with faith and with cheerfulness? Must we (as Mr. "Wister really appears to do) encourage ourselves to share that "certain condescension" with which the Mr. Edward Garnetts excusably (in view of their insularity) view us? Few questions have ever been determined by a monocular stare, or a contemptuous wave of the hand. "We have our limitations, Heaven knows; but we are not altogether a peculiar paille in that respect. Certainly we shall not escape them by flying into a rage, or even by nagging each other. In the current number of the "Atlantic," another novelistcritic goes, smilingly, far deeper into the matter than Mr. Wister (to whose outburst Mr. Nicholson alludes with good-humored deprecation) has done. For the weaknesses of our fiction he blames not the public or publisher or reviewer, or outsider of any sort, but the novelists themselves. "When our writers cease their futile experimenting," he says, "and wake up to the possibilities of American...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152026438 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152026437 |
| Weight | 2.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.52 In |
| List Price | $57.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 776 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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