Opis: Mysterious Legends of Edinburgh - Leighton Alexander

Excerpt from Mysterious Legends of Edinburgh: Now for the First Time Told in Print

In presenting to those readers who are fond of a story, this book, - in the preparation of which, happily, there has been small expense of either the oil of Demosthenes, the wine of Anacreon, or the opium of Coleridge, - the author has a few words to say as to the class to which it belongs; and these have been suggested by a descriptive epithet bestowed by an influential journal on his prior work of "Storied Traditions." These have been baptized "annalistic fiction," - a term not altogether happy, insomuch as, according to the authority of Sir Walter Scott's euphuistic knight of the sheers, it may, and, if sound, ought to stand the test of being reversed, so that we would have, as the characteristic of the book, "feigned annals." This would certainly be untrue, for the annals, however meagre, and, so far as regards quantity, like another knight's ration of bread, are, nevertheless, not fiction, any more than the said bread was spiced sack.

If it were to be objected, that while he has generally indicated his sources, he has not stated the amount of matter derived from them, it may be a very good answer to say, that his object was merely to tell a story which might be invested with so much more of that verisimilitude derived from an imitation of nature as would result from truth being at the bottom of the superstructure.

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Szczegóły: Mysterious Legends of Edinburgh - Leighton Alexander

Nazwa: Mysterious Legends of Edinburgh Now for the First Time Told in Print (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Leighton Alexander
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330422359
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 304
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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