The Mirror of the Century (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lord, Walter Frewen) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Mirror of the Century Dear Lady Tankerville, - Estimates of a century, or of a nation´s spiritual or mental life reviewed over long periods, have often been attempted, and almost always with poor results. So you may well ask why I should expect you to consider The Mirror of the Century. Certainly if it had nothing to recommend it but my signature it would be little worth; but as a guide to the thoughts of twelve great artists whose work covers the momentous nineteenth century, and the part that England has played therein, a study of the novel in its many aspects, from Jane Austen to Mr. W. E. Norris, may have some small merit. In the great country of your birth, in so far as we can judge, all the century is present somewhere within its geographical borders at any given moment. It is not so with us. Much has died: it is astonishing to see how much. In these matters the statistician can help us but little: the artist is by far the better guide. Even to attempt to pilot a reader through the work of twelve artists is an audacious pretension: and to point the social and political morals to be drawn at each turn of the kaleidoscope almost beyond human endeavour. 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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