Koningsmarke, or Old Times in the New World, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James Kirke Paulding

9780265710333: Koningsmarke, or Old Times in the New World, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265710332 ISBN 13: 9780265710333

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Koningsmarke, or Old Times in the New World, Vol. 1 of 2

Another sore obstacle in the way of the free exercise of genius, is for a writer of historical no vels, such as we have reason to suspect this will turn out to be, to embarrass his invention by an abject submission to chronology, or confine himself only to the introduction of such characters and incidents as really existed or took place within the limits of time and space comprised in the ground work of his story. Nothing can be more evident than that this squeamishness of the author must materially interfere with the interest and variety of his work, since, if, as often happens, there should be wanting great characters or great events, com ing lawfully within the period comprised in the said history, the author will be proportionably stinted in his materials. To be scared by a trifling anach ronism, in relation to things that have passed away a century, or ten centuries ago, is a piece of lite rary cowardice, similar to that of the ignorant clown, who should be frightened by the ghost of some one that had been dead a thousand years.

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