This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI LATER WRITINGS All this time Pater was engaged upon a great work, which was destined never to be finished. Gaston de Labour was embarked upon soon after the completion of Marius. Five chapters appeared in Macmillan's Magazine in the course of 1888. A sixth chapter appeared in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI LATER WRITINGS All this time Pater was engaged upon a great work, which was destined never to be finished. Gaston de Labour was embarked upon soon after the completion of Marius. Five chapters appeared in Macmillan's Magazine in the course of 1888. A sixth chapter appeared in the Fortnightly Review in the next year under the title of "Giordano Bruno," and various other unfinished fragments remain. The chapter called " Shadows of Events " is the only one of these which has been included in the 1902 volume. In the case of a writer as sedulous, as eager for perfection, as Pater it is right to withhold the incomplete fragments. He seems for some cause to have abandoned the book in dissatisfaction. We may speculate as to the cause of this. I am myself disposed to think that he found the historical setting too complicated and the canvas too much crowded. As the story advances the personality seems to ebb out of the figure of the hero, and he becomes a mere mirror of events and other personalities. The influences, too, that are brought to bear on him are of so complicated a nature that his development seems hampered rather than enlarged. No doubt Pater felt that the book was not exhibiting his own best qualities of workmanship; and there is a growing weariness visible, as if he felt that he was failing to cope with the pressure of historical experience that was closing in upon the central figure. It may here be said that Pater's best work is that which is built up delicately and imaginatively out of shadowy hints of events and slender records.. His power lay in filling in, heightening, and enriching faint outlines, not in selecting typical touches from great masses of detail. He felt, and rightly, that he had mistaken his capacity....
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G- 12mo. Ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Very light pencil marks to margins of a few pages. Red cloth cover with marked sunning to spine and spine cover edges. Vertical splits to spine back cover edge. A good reading copy. Immediate despatch from the UK.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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