The Conquest of Mexico, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Conquest of Mexico, Vol. 1 After the completion of his first magnum opus, the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, W. H. Prescott allowed himself a sabbatical year of repose. He did very little writing with the exception of a three-decker review of Lockhart´s Life of Scott for the North American. But he cast about anxiously for a new subject upon which to expend another five or six years of concentrated study. Conscious though he was of a slight tendency to prosiness, he seems to have thought that literary history was more in his line than history proper, and he began collecting books with a view to an extended kind of critical and roundabout volume on Molière and his comedy, which "would make an agreeable book for the parlour table." A useful article was eventually manufactured out of the material, but the project melted into thin air as Prescott came to realise the vast amount of literary wealth, transcending even that of the fabled silver mines, that awaited the explorer of ancient Mexico. Serious difficulties, bibliographical and personal, confronted the hardy adventurer. Owing to the grave defect of his eyesight, which prevented him from reading more than one hour in the twenty-four, he was practically debarred from libraries and archives, and had to depend upon books or manuscripts in his own possession being read to him aloud. The requisite material would be hard to collect. Fortunately Prescott´s means were ample, and he never had to write against time for money. In the second place, a rumour, which proved to be well founded, had reached him that Washington Irving was meditating a book upon the selfsame subject. In dealing with both these obstacles Prescott showed characteristic determination. 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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