A Manual of the Art of Fiction

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Excerpt from A Manual of the Art of Fiction: Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges Even when the modern languages entered into the inheritance of Latin and Greek, verse held to its auces tral privileges, and the brief tale took the form of the ballad, and the longer narrative called itself a chanson dc geste. Boccaccio and Rabelais and Cervantes might win immediate popularity and invite a host of imita tors, but it was long after their time before a tale in prose, whether short or long, achieved recognition as worthy of serious critical consideration. In his study of Balzac, Brunetiere recorded the significant fact that no novelist, who was purely and simply a novelist, was elected to the French Academy in the first two centuries of its existence. And the same acute critic, in his History of Classical French Literature, pointed out that French novels were under a cloud of suspicion even so far back as the days of Erasmus, in 1525. It was many scores of years there after before the self - appointed guardians of French literature esteemed the novel highly enough to conde scend to discuss it. 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.