This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...door, for it would then be proved that 1 had not the faculty to please, and therefore am not responsible for what I have not; I have thought it proper to premise thus much, at the commencement of a new volume, in order to wash my hands clean in this matter. It would, however, be doing simple justice to myself, were I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...door, for it would then be proved that 1 had not the faculty to please, and therefore am not responsible for what I have not; I have thought it proper to premise thus much, at the commencement of a new volume, in order to wash my hands clean in this matter. It would, however, be doing simple justice to myself, were I briefly to state the reasons why the story has not as yet become interesting. In the first place, the reader will please remember that nothing very striking does, in point of fact, ever occur in the history of a boy in his teens, and especially of a Bengali peasant boy. I could have, if I had pleased, concentrated into this biography the collected striking incidents in the lives of a thousand Bengali peasants; but in that case I should have been writing the life of a possible, or at best of a probable, raiyat, whereas my object in this book is to write the history of an actual raiyat--a raiyat that may be found at any hour of any day in any district of Bengal. If, therefore, there be any dearth of interest in the annals of the boyhood of Govinda, the defect is not mine, but that of Nature, whom I follow. In the second place, the reader is to bear in mind that the primary object of this book is to draw a picture of the "social and domestic life of the rural population and working classes of Bengal," and that the story, to use the words of Johnson, "only gives occasion" to the drawing of that picture. At the same time I should be sorry if anybody thought that I had no story to tell. I could not, in all conscience, say with the Knife-grinder, "Story 1 God bless you, I have none to tell, sir!" I have a story to tell, as the reader will see, if he will have only the patience to wait a bit. We have not met Malati since h...
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