A Prince of Good Fellows
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Prince of Good Fellows: A Picture From Life In writing this book the author has had but one desire, to give a correct and truthful picture of life upon the large cotton plantations lying upon the Mississippi river. After many years´ study of the German and English literature, he has become convinced that two writers in German and two in English stand head and shoulders above the rest, as writers of romance, simply because they are able to paint human life just as human beings live it, without giving highly overwrought plots and sensational acting, which nobody ever yet saw in real life. I need scarcely add that the names of these writers are Goethe and Lessing in the German, and Thackeray and George Eliot in the English. I have not attempted to imitate them, for we all know that they are inimitable, but I have made a careful study of their methods, and have endeavored to put them into use in writing this story. The moment a writer adopts life-like methods, and begins to paint his picture with only the colors that life admits, the critics cry, "You have no plot." Well, then, I will admit in the beginning I have no plot. In fact, I have tried hard to avoid having a plot, for, after living thirty odd years among different people on this globe, I have yet to find one single plot in human life according to the idea of the fashionable novel. Life is not lived after that manner at all. Things do not turn out to please us all, not by long odds. And, as for the virtuous all being rewarded, and everybody being made happy - these things never occur save in the next world and in the pages of novels that have plots to them. Human life is quite a different thing, where the failures are in greater proportion than the successes, and where things fail woefully to turn out in a manner to please us all. Well, then, just so far as life justified it I have given a plot, and no further - but I have given you, reader, what is vastly better in the eyes of wise men, a picture of human life, with all its pathos and humor, just as human beings live it. 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.
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