The Masterpieces Of Modern Drama English And American

Excerpt from The Masterpieces of Modern Drama, English and American: Abridged in Narrative, With Dialogue of the Great Scenes Now that the nineteenth century hassofarreceded from usthatwecanbegintosurveyitinaperspectivenotdis torted by the prejudices which always mar our vmon of the immdiate present, we are at last able to sum up its efforts and its achievements m the several arts. When we consider theliteratureofthepast hundred earswecannot iailtoremark upontheextraordinaryan un recedented vogue of prosefiction, beginning with the s success of the Waverly novels of Scott 1n England 1n the first quar ter of the cent stimulated by the mdefatigable curiosity which sustains ehumancomecb'ofbalzacinfrancein the mid-years; and ennobled by the lofty veracity of Tol stoy's later studies of human strn es in Russia in the final demdes. Poets there were in the modern literatures, poets of high ambition and of genuine inspiration as well as sincere aspiration; historians and biographers, and emyists, there were in abundance; and yet the ists outnumbered the others and seemed at times almost to outshine them. Indeed, the attraction of fiction was so. 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.

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