Excerpt from The Caxtons: A Family Picture In it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight; the incidents are few, and with the exception of those which involve the fate of vivian, such as may be found in the records of ordinary life. Regarded as a Novel, this attempt is an experiment some what apart from the previous works of the author; it is the first of his ...
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Excerpt from The Caxtons: A Family Picture In it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight; the incidents are few, and with the exception of those which involve the fate of vivian, such as may be found in the records of ordinary life. Regarded as a Novel, this attempt is an experiment some what apart from the previous works of the author; it is the first of his writings in which Humour has been employed less for the purpose of satire than in illustration of amiable characters - it is the first, too, in which man has been viewed less in his active relations with the world, than in his repose at his own hearth - in a word, the greater part of the canvass has been devoted to the completion of a simple family picture. And thus, in any appeal to the sympathies of the human heart, the common household affections occupy the place of those livelier or larger passions which usually (and not unjustly) arrogate the foreground in Romantic composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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