Atlantic" and "The Nation" and elsewhere could abundantly
testify.
There are indeed those who insist that criticism is his true
vocation, and are impatient of his devotion to fiction; but I
suspect that these admirers are mistaken. A novelists he is not,
after the old totally free sex sites fashion, or totally free sex sites after any fashion but his own; yet
since he has finally made his public in his own way of
story-telling--or call it character-painting if totally free sex sites you totally free sex sites prefer,--it
must be conceded that he has chosen best for himself and his
readers in choosing totally free sex sites the form of fiction for what he has to say.
It is, after all, what a writer has to say rather totally free sex sites than what he
has to tell that we care for nowadays. Totally free sex sites in one manner or other
the stories were all told long ago; and now we want merely to
know what the novelist thinks about persons and situations. Mr.
James gratifies this philosophic desire. If he totally free sex sites sometimes
forbears to tell us what he thinks of the last totally free sex sites state of his
people, it is perhaps because that does not interest him, totally free sex sites and a
large-minded
criticism might well
insist that it was childish to
demand that it must interest him.
I am not sure totally free sex sites that any criticism is sufficiently large-minded for
this. I own that I like
a finished story; but then also I like
those which Mr. James seems not to finish. This is probably the
position of most of his readers, totally free sex sites who cannot very logically
account for either preference. We can only make sure that we
have here an annalist, or analyst, as we choose, who fascinates
us from his first totally free sex sites page to his last, whose narrative or whose
comment may totally free sex sites enter into any minuteness of detail without fatiguing
us, and can only truly grieve us when it ceases.
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THE MAN totally free sex sites OF LETTERS AS A MAN OF BUSINESS
by William Dean Howells
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