...many new admirers. In the Preface to The House of the Seven Gables, our author claims for the book " a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material,...to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel " ; and he further tells us, that " it has been no part of his object, however, to describe local manners,...

...many new admirers. In the Preface to The House of the Seven Gables, our author claims for the book " a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material,...to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel "; and he further tells us, that " it has been no part of his object, however, to describe local manners,...

...UNIVERSITY PRESS : WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. -m PREFACE. QVHM a write- calls his work a Romance, H need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to iu feshion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume, had he professed...

...HOP. UNIVERSITY PRESS : JOHN WILSON & SON, CAMBRIDGE. PREFACE. HEN a writer calls his work a Romanee, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitnde, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume,...

...Romance" he is careful to call this, as all his other longer works, in order that he may claim that "latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel ;" and nowhere does Hawthorne avail himself of this latitude with more consummate skill, or " mingle...

...Romance" he is careful to call this, as all his other longer works, in order that he may claim that "latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel ;" and nowhere does Hawthorne avail himself of this latitude with more consummate skill, or " mingle...

...her if she would not like him to become an author and have his books read in England. GPL PREFACE. WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim ascertain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled...

...his position as a writer of romance, and " thereby wishes to claim," he says, " a certain latitude in fashion and material, which he would not have felt...entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel ; " because, as he justly remarks, the novel aims at fidelity, not only to the possible, but to the...

...any standard of mere fidelity to fact. He says, in the preface to The House of the Seven Cables : " When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly...fashion and material, which he would not have felt entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel." This very romance, however, has, with all...

...obscurest man of letters in America.'' — Ilmrthorne's Preface to 'Turice-Told Tales' (edition of 1851). " When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly...wishes to claim a Certain latitude, both as to its fashio:i and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume ha.l he professed to...