 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....  A Modern Lover - Page 16by George Moore - 1885 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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sense of the reader....is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of documents, published and unpublished, original letters, memoirs, and piccci jiutiflcativet,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 698 pages
...present plain, unvarnished statement of facts as a work of liction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive...common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, iucomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of documents,... | |
 | 1880 - 826 pages
...facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be « positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as th< narrative is, every word of it is true." — Notes and Queries. VIZETELLY & CO., 42, Catherine... | |
 | Prosper Mérimée - 1881 - 244 pages
...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as to be a positive...is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of documents published and unpublished, original letters, memoirs and pieces justificatives,... | |
 | 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sense of the reader....is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of documents published and unpublished, original letters, memoirs, And pieces j uati/icati... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - England - 1881 - 440 pages
...of notion, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive intuit to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling,...is the narrative which the author has here evolved from the mass of documents published and unpublished, original letters, memoirs, and puces jvutijicativei,... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - Great Britain - 1881 - 440 pages
...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. Tet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved from... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - United States - 1882 - 420 pages
...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...incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has heie evolved from tbe mass of documents published and unpublished, original letters, memoirs, and pieces... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - United States - 1883 - 422 pages
...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 render. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narratiTe which the author has heie evolved... | |
 | James Greenwood - Great Britain - 1883 - 360 pages
...nnvarnirticrt statement of facts us a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as SO violating 111 probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, fertlinu. incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every ford of it... | |
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