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The Morgesons (Paperback)
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The Morgesons (Paperback)
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...I suppose it was environment that caused me to write these
novels; but the mystery of it is, that when I left my native
village I did not dream that imagination would lead me there again,
for the simple annals of our village and domestic ways did not
interest me; neither was I in the least studious. My years were
passed in an attempt to have a good time, according to the desires
and fancies of youth. Of literature and the literary life, I and my
tribe knew nothing; we had not discovered "sermons in stones."
Where then was the panorama of my stories and novels stored, that
was unrolled in my new sphere? Of course, being moderately
intelligent I read everything that came in my way, but merely for
amusement. It had been laid up against me as a persistent fault,
which was not profitable; I should peruse moral, and pious works,
or take up sewing, --that interminable thing, "white seam," which
filled the leisure moments of the right-minded. To the personnel of
writers I gave little heed; it was the hero they created that
charmed me, like Miss Porter's gallant Pole, Sobieski, or the
ardent Ernest Maltravers, of Bulwer...
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