Bond-Slaves (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bond-Slaves "My dear Lloyd: - When "Tillers of the Soil" was finished I had almost enough material left to make another such novel. Since then I have gleaned during some six gears in the same field, and here is a sheaf of my gleanings. A friend, to whom I shewed the proofs, ventured the opinion that "the theme of the book is the tie between Ben and Miriam." So I hasten to assure you that such is not the case. The theme is strictly rural life - fourfold in the doings of Ben and Miriam, Adam and his ambitions and mental devolution, the psychology of Ramzern, and the same of the Sheirlaws, in fact, you may make it as manifold as there are threads in the story. But please bear in mind that whilst each individual in these pages is a living piece of flesh and blood to me, he or she is also representative of a class in the community, in which there are, thank Heaven, always more good than bad. But, then, the really good are not game to the realist, they are usually without much character, and are therefore only poultry to him, and rather insipid because of lacking a pinch of the Devil's salt and a grain of his pepper. And what is here true of the novelist is equally so of the reader. As to the moral of it all: Life teems with moralities, they spring out of every-day doings, as swift glances come from sparkling eyes, mischief from a robustious boy, and acorns from oaks - to be oaks in their turn some day. 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.