An Apology for Old Maids
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Sedgwick, Henry Dwight) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from An Apology for Old Maids: And Other Essays Only a few hours ago I paused at a teeming book-stall in the South Station, Boston. Beside me stood Inelegant Leisure in petticoats, choosing. The emotion that rose in me was one of thankfulness that a paper famine is said to be upon us. Lot was assured that a given number of respectable citizens could avert from his town its doom. Had we, I wondered, among our huge population of novelists enough for salvation? - Well, I thought next, among another company its more hopeful. A small company, to be sure, and they don´t live in the best-seller belt; but, any how, they do live - and persist. Why is it that our American essayists are on the whole so good and our American novelists are on the whole so bad? As with guns so with books it is the man behind them that counts. He matters; more than his talent, or his learning, or his subject, more than anything, he matters. It is Montaigne himself we enjoy; it is Scott himself, Scott the man throughout his romances, who lives most, who fills and warms their pages with his noble. 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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