The Men Who Make Our Novels (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Men Who Make Our Novels As is usual with books and prefaces alike, since no man can escape the prison of his personality to view the world with any eyes but his own, we cannot, like that Tiresias cited by Monsieur France, be men and at the same time have memories of having been women. The present volume, presumably dealing with cer tain of those who make novels, was written on de mand, and is, for the most part, concerned with the life and opinions of George Gordon. For this reason, despite Mr. Bullard's frank invitation, I am loathe to add (to so much) a preface on him. Rather am I of the opinion of the author who demurred when the first John Murray demanded a preface to his book. A preface (he said) always put him in mind of Ham let's exclamation to the tardy player, Leave thy most damnable faces, and begin! 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.