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Synopsis
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Perhaps no living critic is quite adequate to its complete discharge. Yet, for reasons that I shall presently set forth, it appears to me of paramount importance that an attempt should be made. At first sight, it may, indeed, seem little short of fatuous to assert that, during momentous days such as these in which we are now living, literature and literary art and criticism have claims upon our attention such as they never had before. The nation has just emerged, bloody and victorious, from the most ghastly war that has ever been waged, every hour of which brought not only its tale of triumph and terror, of heroism and endurance but also of desolation, of misery, of all the unspeakable agonies, all the incurable ills that from day to day were inflicted upon the human race. For four and a half years we have endured the ghastly miasma of the world tottering upon its foundations and tumbling to ruins; of our ideals and our dreams being shattered and cast into oblivion; of our vast and intricate structure of civilisation being trampled underfoot by the iron heel of War. All this, and much more that need not be reiterated, have we endured, cheering ourselves during all this long and gloomy night-time, with the thought that .. .. Night comes that day may break. Each into each dies, each of each is born: Day past is night, shall night past not be morn? And now the night is over and done, and the glorious dawntide of our dreams is at hand. The realisation has been growing upon us that the day that is being ushered in is not one of ease and relaxation after our struggle. It marks but the beginning of new struggles different and perhaps even greater than the Titanic contest with Prussianism.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklo
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