George Saintsbury
Published: 2018-02-17
Total Pages: 612
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Excerpt from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2: To the Close of the 19th Century Thirdly, it would be impossible to deal with the subject, save in an absurdly incomplete fashion, without discussing living persons. To doing this, in a book, I have an unfashionable but unalterable objection. The productions of such persons, as they appear, are, by now established custom, proper subjects for reviewing in accordance with the decencies of literature, and such reviews may sometimes, with the same proviso, be ex tended to studies of their work up to date. But even these latter should, I think, be reserved for very exceptional cases. 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.