I quite feel that an apology is due for beginning a novel with two long dull chapters full of description. I am perfectly aware of the danger of such a course. In so doing I sin against the golden rule which requires us all to put our best foot foremost,... Doctor Thorne: A Novel : In 2 Vols - Page 29by Anthony Trollope - 1858 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anthony Trollope - 1859 - 560 pages
...selecting for themselves in this respect being left to all my readers — and as Miss Mary Thorne is to he our heroine, a point on which no choice whatsoever...our best foot foremost, the wisdom of which is fully recognized by novelists, myself among the number. It can hardly be expected that any one will consent... | |
| Donald Smalley - 1995 - 600 pages
...makes two separate starts, each dating twenty years before the main story, Mr. Trollope observes—'I quite feel that an apology is due for beginning a...novel with two long dull chapters full of description . . . but twist it as I will, I cannot do otherwise.' It was his business to do otherwise, and not... | |
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