The History of Pendennisanboco, 01.09.2016 - 500 Seiten If this kind of composition, of which the two years' product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty, which a work more elaborate might lose. In his constant communication with the reader, the writer is forced into frankness of expression, and to speak out his own mind and feelings as they urge him. Many a slip of the pen and the printer, many a word spoken in haste, he sees and would recall as he looks over his volume. It is a sort of confidential talk between writer and reader, which must often be dull, must often flag. In the course of his volubility, the perpetual speaker must of necessity lay bare his own weaknesses, vanities, peculiarities. And as we judge of a man's character, after long frequenting his society, not by one speech, or by one mood or opinion, or by one day's talk, but by the tenor of his general bearing and conversation; so of a writer, who delivers himself up to you perforce unreservedly, you say, Is he honest? Does he tell the truth in the main? Does he seem actuated by a desire to find out and speak it? Is he a quack, who shams sentiment, or mouths for effect? Does he seek popularity by claptraps or other arts? I can no more ignore good fortune than any other chance which has befallen me. I have found many thousands more readers than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, You shall not find fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages; but I ask you to believe that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of 'excitement' may care to know, that this book began with a very precise plan, which was entirely put aside. Ladies and gentlemen, you were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publisher's pocket benefited, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. |
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Where Pen appears in Town and Country | |
In which the Sylph reappears | |
Part of Mr Strongs business in life was to procure this money | |
Colonel Altamont appears and disappears | |
Relates to Mr Harry Fokers Affairs | |
Carries the Reader both to Richmond and Greenwich | |
Contains a novel Incident | |
Alsatia | |
In which the Major opens the Campaign | |
Facing the Enemy | |
Negotiation | |
In which a Shooting Match is proposed | |
A Crisis | |
In which Miss Fotheringay makes a new Engagement | |
The happy Village | |
More Storms in the Puddle | |
Which concludes the first Part of this History | |
Alma Mater | |
Pendennis of Boniface | |
Rakes Progress | |
Flight after Defeat | |
Prodigals Return | |
New Faces | |
A Little Innocent | |
Contains both Love and Jealousy | |
A House full of Visitors | |
Contains some Ballpractising | |
Which is both Quarrelsome and Sentimental | |
Babylon | |
The Knights of the Temple | |
Old and new Acquaintances | |
In which the Printers Devil comes to the Door | |
Which is passed in the Neighbourhood of Ludgate Hill | |
In which the History still hovers about Fleet Street | |
Dinner in the | |
The Pall Mall Gazette | |
In which the Colonel narrates some of his Adventures | |
A Chapter of Conversations | |
Miss Amorys Partners | |
Monseigneur samuse | |
A Visit of Politeness | |
In Shepherds | |
Or near the Temple Garden | |
The happy Village again | |
Which had very nearly been the last of the Story | |
A critical Chapter | |
Convalescence | |
Fannys Occupations gone | |
In which Fanny engages a new Medical | |
Foreign Ground | |
Fairoaks to let | |
Old Friends | |
Explanations | |
Conversations | |
The Way of the World | |
Which accounts perhaps for Chapter LXI The information | |
Phyllis and Corydon | |
Temptation | |
In which Pen begins his Canvass | |
In which Pen begins to doubt about his Election | |
In which the Major is bidden to Stand and Deliver | |
In which the Major neither yields his Money nor his Life | |
In which Pendennis counts his Eggs | |
Fiat Justitia | |
In which the Decks begin to clear | |
Mr and Mrs Sam Huxter | |
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