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Ivanhoe: A Romance

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Scott, Walter

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 151208252X
ISBN13: 9781512082524
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 6 2015
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.39 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature, have been termed L'Enfant Gate of success. It was plain, however, that frequent publication must finally wear out the public favour, unless some mode could be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions. Scottish manners, Scottish dialect, and Scottish characters of note, being those with which the author was most intimately, and familiarly acquainted, were the groundwork upon which he had hitherto relied for giving effect to his narrative. It was, however, obvious, that this kind of interest must in the end occasion a degree of sameness and repetition, if exclusively resorted to, and that the reader was likely at length to adopt the language of Edwin, in Parnell's Tale:

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