Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The God of Clay
To choose for the hero of your historical novel a historical man is not the classic way. In the great exemplars the burden and the heat of the story are borne by creatures Of the imagination, and it is only through the medium of their ingeniously adventurous lives that We are permitted to see the actual men Whose blunders and whose labours made the world we use. This may be the best, as it is certainly the easiest scheme, but there are others not to be condemned by lynch law. Catholic critics stand by the sentence of a master of the craft, that no literary form is in itself bad if its intentions are virtuous. He who seeks to make a man of history dominant in a landscape of romance is not, therefore, a blatant sinner against the holy covenant of art.
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