The Works of Gilbert Parker, Vol. 18 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Gilbert Parker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333043155
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Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Excerpt from The Works of Gilbert Parker, Vol. 18 A very natural difficulty presents itself in regard to any pref atory remarks concerning this book. In the case of all the other books for which an introduction in this series has been written, time had elapsed (in some cases over twenty years) between the first publication and the issuing of this subscription edition. The Judgment House, however, goes into the subscrip tion edition almost contemporaneously with first issue in indi vidual form, and there is little that can usefully be said now. Time is necessary to give a book its true place; for whatever first impressions may be, there is only one true test of a book, and that is permanency. The popular book which dies at the end of a season requires no historian's or coinmentator's hand; and the book that is not the book of a season, but is to extend its life through years and not through weeks and months has not found its definite place either in the mind of the public or of its authohemimy not in the mind of the latter - soon after original publication. Something very like a reaction is set up in the mind of the author after his manuscript has ceased to be his very own, having become anybody's at the price in printed form, and a coldness in his own relation to it emerges. He needs time to adjust himself to a work on which the outer world has breathed with ban or blessing. 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.