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...I suppose it was environment that caused me to write these novels; but the mystery of it is, that when I left my native village I did not dream that imagination would lead me there again, for the simple annals of our village and domestic ways did not interest me; neither was I in the least studious. My years were passed in an attempt to have a good time, according to the desires and fancies of youth. Of literature and the literary life, I and my tribe knew nothing; we had not discovered sermons in stones. Where then was the panorama of my stories and novels stored, that was unrolled in my new sphere? Of course, being moderately intelligent I read everything that came in my way, but merely for amusement. It had been laid up against me as a persistent fault, which was not profitable; I should peruse moral, and pious works, or take up sewing, --that interminable thing, white seam, which filled the leisure moments of the right-minded. To the personnel of writers I gave little heed; it was the hero they created that charmed me, like Miss Porter's gallant Pole, Sobieski, or the ardent Ernest Maltravers, of Bulwer...
| ISBN-13 | 9780548925683 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0548925682 |
| Weight | 1.29 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.75 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $42.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 280 pages |
| Publisher | Kessinger Publishing |
| Published On | 2008-06-01 |
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