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William Walter Crotch

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Description:Excerpt from The Secret of Dickens The task that I have set to perform in the following pages is one that I realise to be beyond my strength. 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. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Secret of Dickens (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Secret of Dickens (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Secret of Dickens The task that I have set to perform in the following pages is one that I realise to be beyond my strength. 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. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Secret of Dickens (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Secret of Dickens (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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