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" Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader.... "
In strange company - Page 319
by James Greenwood - 1883 - 324 pages
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Electronic journals - 1867 - 682 pages
...mind any one particular incident, it must surely have hecn what has been pronounced " the greatest о be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of...
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Electronic journals - 1867 - 698 pages
...unvarnished statement of facts as a work of liction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, iucomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of...
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Colomba and Carmen

Prosper Mérimée - 1881 - 244 pages
...unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of...
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Side-lights on English Society: Or Sketches from Life, Social ..., Volume 2

Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - Great Britain - 1881 - 440 pages
...unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Tet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from...
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Side-lights on English Society: Or Sketches from Life, Social ..., Volume 2

Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - Great Britain - 1881 - 444 pages
...facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to bo a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of...
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America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico ..., Volume 1

George Augustus Sala - United States - 1882 - 420 pages
...unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has heie evolved from tbe mass of...
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America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico ..., Volume 1

George Augustus Sala - United States - 1883 - 422 pages
...unvarnished statement •of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the render. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narratiTe which the author has heie evolved...
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High Life in France Under the Republic: Social and Satirical Sketches in ...

Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - France - 1884 - 364 pages
...unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it...
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The Ironmaster: Or, Love and Pride

Georges Ohnet - 1884 - 396 pages
...unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced aa so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it...
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The "Assommoir.": (The Prelude to "Nana.") A Realistic Novel

Émile Zola - Married women - 1884 - 490 pages
...facts as a work of fiction, it would have becn denounced ав аo violating probabilitics as to bo a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, Btarthr:: ineompreheusible as is the narrative which the auther has here evolved, every i\4-rd of it...
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