A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing With American City Life (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing With American City Life The object of this list is to direct readers, such as would enjoy the kind of hooks here described, to a number of novels, easily obtainable, but which, in many cases, have been forgotten within a year or two after publication. That the existence of works of fiction is remembered so short a time is a pity, since, for every new book of merit, there are, in most libraries, a hundred as good or better, unknown to the majority of readers. It is hoped that the publication of this and similar lists will lessen, in some measure, the disposition to read an inferior new book when superior old books, equally fresh to most readers, are at hand. This list will be followed by others describing International, Romantic, Eccentric and Fanciful novels and tales. The compiler would be pleased to have his attention called to any works deserving a place which have escaped his attention. It may be observed that the compiler has tried to include only such works as are well-written, interesting, and free from sensationalism, sentimentality, and pretense. But in a few cases, books have been noticed on account of the reputation of their authors, or their great popularity, rather than their merit. The selected "notices" here given are generally abridged. Abraham Page, Esq. [by J: Saunders Holt: Lippincott, 1869.] "To read them is to get much the same kind of pleasure that one finds iu listening to the talk of a shrewd, sensible old man, such as one occasionally meets in out-of-the-way country places, who, having spent all his days in one spot, has been colored by his surroundings to the very marrow, and whose judgments on men and things, if they have the defect of being provincial and narrow, have also the virtue of resulting fairly from his own observations. . . But usually he confines himself closely to the matter he has in hand. That matter is description of life and manners in the little Southern village where he was born, and where he lived all his days in the comfortable assurance that life had nothing better or pleasanter to offer than what could be found within its limits. Contentment is certainly a virtue, and it is hard to say who could practise it with greater hopes of success than a man situated as "Mr. Page" describes himself to have been, who felt the pleasant conviction that to be a gentleman was the chief end of man, and that only a Southerner, the owner of slaves, could ever hope to attain it. Under such circumstances, a cheerful serenity and a calm confidence in surveying and analyzing the meaner works of God´ s hand could hardly fail to be engendered in any bosom. Such was the result, at all events, in "Mr. Page´s" case; and, considering the 2 unaffectedly pleasant books which, but for this satisfaction with himself and this thoro persuasion of the soundness of all his positions, would certainly have been less peculiarly pleasant, we find in ourselves not the least disposition to quarrel with 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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