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Excerpt from Ernest Maltravers, or the Eleusinia, Vol. 1 of 2: Part the Second, Comprising Alice, or the Mysteries
In tracing the progress and denouement of this con ception, the reader will be better enabled to judge both of the ethical intention of the author, and of the de gree of success with which, as an artist, he has con nected the inward story with the outer, and, while faithful to his main typical purpose, left to the charac ters that illustrate it the attributes of reality the freedom and movement of living beings. SO far as an author may presume to judge Of his own writings, no narrative fiction by the same hand (with the exception of the poem of King Arthur') deserves to be classed before this, work in such merit as may be thought to belong to harmony between a premeditated conception and the various incidents and agencies employed in the development of plot. 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.
