Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332797110
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)
Book Synopsis Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by : Walter Scott
Download or read book Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 Criticism has very little to do with Count Robert of Paris. The wonderful mental and bodily strength of Scott had been undermined before he wrote the tale and broke down as he was in the course of writing it. The romance is not a work of his normal self: ashes, indeed, there come of the old brightness, but we may almost go so far as to say that the book is not Scott's, not the work of the Scott we knew. For prao tical purposes, and even for some literary purposes, his mind was still available, but not for the purpose of serious imaginative composition. At furthest we may say that, if Scott, in these circumstances, could not write like himself, perhaps no other man could have written at all. The Editor has examined the manu script of the Reliquiae Trotcosienses, an anecdotic and historical catalogue of the Abbotsford collection, attempted by Scott as a relief from the labour of the novel. It is sadly evident that neither mentally nor bodily was he fit, at this time, for the toil of composi tion. But there was to be no rest for Sir Walter, except in the woollen.' He struggled on at his impos sible and honourable task. It is the character, the indomitable courage of the man which we are called on to applaud: literary criticisms were misapplied and out of place. 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."
