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Once, when two little girlsevidently\r\nthe wharfingers daughterswent by, my hand reached out to the door\r\nto open it so that I might call to them and present them with the puling little\r\nwretch.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2415 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: London, Jack \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2000 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"London, Jack,1876-1916 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212254150813,"sku":"gb-2415-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2415_38ef895b-3105-41e7-afec-8abec7e33f09.jpg?v=1671253228"},{"product_id":"20000-leagues-under-the-seas-an-underwater-tour-of-the-world-gb-2488","title":"20,000 Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water? Its almost beyond conjecture.\nJules Verne (1828-1905) published the French equivalents of these words in 1869, and little has changed since. 126 years later, a Time cover story on deep-sea exploration made much the same admission: We know more about Mars than we know about the oceans. This reality begins to explain the dark power and otherworldly fascination of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.\nBorn in the French river town of Nantes, Verne had a lifelong passion for the sea. First as a Paris stockbroker, later as a celebrated author and yachtsman, he went on frequent voyagesto Britain, America, the Mediterranean. But the specific stimulus for this novel was an 1865 fan letter from a fellow writer, Madame George Sand. She praised Vernes two early novels Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), then added: Soon I hope youll take us into the ocean depths, your characters traveling in diving equipment perfected by your science and your imagination. Thus inspired, Verne created one of literatures great rebels, a freedom fighter who plunged beneath the waves to wage a unique form of guerilla warfare.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2488 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Verne, Jules \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Winter, Milo, 1888-1956 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Walter, Frederick Paul, 1943- \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Verne, Jules,1828-1905 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212258705565,"sku":"gb-2488-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2488_48b21188-82b8-47d1-8f15-f6533c563493.jpg?v=1671253433"},{"product_id":"moby-dick-or-the-whale-gb-2489","title":"Moby Dick Or, The Whale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoby Dick; Or, The Whale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nCall me Ishmael. Some years agonever mind how long precisely having little or\r\nno money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought\r\nI would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I\r\nhave of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find\r\nmyself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in\r\nmy soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses,\r\nand bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my\r\nhypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle\r\nto prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically\r\nknocking people's hats offthen, I account it high time to get to sea as soon\r\nas I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical\r\nflourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There\r\nis nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their\r\ndegree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the\r\nocean with me.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2489 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Melville, Herman \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Melville, Herman,1819-1891 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212258771101,"sku":"gb-2489-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2489_1af7257e-6224-48d6-bcf1-3d0a9bb4a689.jpg?v=1671253436"},{"product_id":"moby-dick-or-the-whale-gb-2701","title":"Moby Dick Or, The Whale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoby Dick; Or, The Whale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n        The pale Usherthreadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see\r\n        him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer\r\n        handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the\r\n        known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it\r\n        somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.\r\n      \n\r\n        While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name\r\n        a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through\r\n        ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of\r\n        the word, you deliver that which is not true. 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But then\r\nhis lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always\r\nnormal. He says, for instance, of Anne of Cleves, that she was the\r\nugliest woman that ever I saw. As far as we can glean from his\r\nown voluminous writings it would seem to be extremely doubtful whether he ever\r\nsaw Anne of Cleves at all, and we suspect him here of being no more than a\r\nslavish echo of the common voice, which attributed Cromwells downfall to\r\nthe ugliness of this bride he procured for his Bluebeard master. To the common\r\nvoice from the brush of Holbein, which permits us to form our own opinions and\r\nshows us a lady who is certainly very far from deserving his lordships\r\nharsh stricture. Similarly, I like to believe that Lord Henry was wrong in his\r\npronouncement upon Sir Oliver, and I am encouraged in this belief by the\r\npen-portrait which he himself appends to it. He was, he says,\r\na tall, powerful fellow of a good shape, if we except that his arms were\r\ntoo long and that his feet and hands were of an uncomely bigness. In face he\r\nwas swarthy, with black hair and a black forked beard; his nose was big and\r\nvery high in the bridge, and his eyes sunk deep under beetling eyebrows were\r\nvery pale-coloured and very cruel and sinister. He hadand this I have\r\never remarked to be the sign of great virility in a mana big, deep,\r\nrough voice, better suited to, and no doubt oftener employed in, quarter-deck\r\noaths and foulnesses than the worship of his Maker.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3294 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Sabatini, Rafael \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2002 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sabatini, Rafael,1875-1950 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212343148701,"sku":"gb-3294-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3294_156f5e87-3586-44d1-8b93-c8ea192c1689.jpg?v=1671255539"},{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-roderick-random-gb-4085","title":"The Adventures of Roderick Random","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Adventures of Roderick Random\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nOf all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally\r\nimproving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course\r\nof an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life, and by\r\nrepresenting familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests\r\nthem with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every\r\nparticular. 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In\r\nthe dark ages of the World, when a man had rendered himself famous for wisdom\r\nor valour, his family and adherents availed themselves of his superior\r\nqualities, magnified his virtues, and represented his character and person as\r\nsacred and supernatural. The vulgar easily swallowed the bait, implored his\r\nprotection, and yielded the tribute of homage and praise, even to adoration;\r\nhis exploits were handed down to posterity with a thousand exaggerations; they\r\nwere repeated as incitements to virtue; divine honours were paid, and altars\r\nerected to his memory, for the encouragement of those who attempted to imitate\r\nhis example; and hence arose the heathen mythology, which is no other than a\r\ncollection of extravagant romances. 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But when the minds of men were debauched\r\nby the imposition of priestcraft to the most absurd pitch of credulity, the\r\nauthors of romance arose, and losing sight of probability, filled their\r\nperformances with the most monstrous hyperboles. If they could not equal the\r\nancient poets in point of genius they were resolved to excel them in fiction,\r\nand apply to the wonder, rather than the judgment, of their readers.\r\nAccordingly, they brought necromancy to their aid, and instead of supporting\r\nthe character of their heroes by dignity of sentiment and practice,\r\ndistinguished them by their bodily strength, activity, and extravagance of\r\nbehaviour. Although nothing could be more ludicrous and unnatural than the\r\nfigures they drew, they did not want patrons and admirers; and the world\r\nactually began to be infected with the spirit of knight-errantry, when\r\nCervantes, by an inimitable piece of ridicule, reformed the taste of mankind,\r\nrepresenting chivalry in the right point of view, and converting romance to\r\npurposes far more useful and entertaining, by making it assume the sock, and\r\npoint out the follies of ordinary life.\r\n\n\r\nThe same method has been practised by other Spanish and French authors, and by\r\nnone more successfully than by Monsieur Le Sage, who, in his Adventures of\r\nGil Blas, has described the knavery and foibles of life, with infinite\r\nhumour and sagacity. 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To secure a\r\nfavourable prepossession, I have allowed him the advantages of birth and\r\neducation, which in the series of his misfortunes will, I hope, engage the\r\ningenuous more warmly in his behalf; and though I foresee, that some people\r\nwill be offended at the mean scenes in which he is involved, I persuade myself\r\nthat the judicious will not only perceive the necessity of describing those\r\nsituations to which he must of course be confined, in his low estate, but also\r\nfind entertainment in viewing those parts of life, where the humours and\r\npassions are undisguised by affectation, ceremony, or education; and the\r\nwhimsical peculiarities of disposition appear as nature has implanted them. But\r\nI believe I need not trouble myself in vindicating a practice authorized by the\r\nbest writers in this way, some of whom I have already named.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4085 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Smollett, T. (Tobias) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Smollett, T. 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Nothing\nhas ever shown me more plainly that truth is stranger than\nfiction, for all that is most improbable here is the actual\nfact.\nThe Comte de Bourke was really an Irish Jacobite, naturalised\nin France, and married to the daughter of the Marquis de\nVarennes, as well as in high favour with the Marshal Duke of\nBerwick.\nIn 1719, just when the ambition of Elizabeth Farnese, the\nsecond wife of Philip V. of Spain, had involved that country in a\nwar with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred\nfrom the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife\nand two elder children to join him at a Spanish port.\nThis arrangement was so strange that I can only account for it\nby supposing that as this was the date of a feeble Spanish\nattempt on behalf of the Jacobites in Scotland, Comte de Bourke\nmay not have ventured by the direct route. Or it may not\nhave been etiquette for him to re-enter France when appointed\nambassador. At any rate, the poor Countess did take this\nroute to the South, and I am inclined to think the narrative must\nbe correct, as all the side-lights I have been able to gain\nperfectly agree with it, often in an unexpected manner.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4271 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Yonge, Charlotte M. 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The necessity of writing to a\r\n      name, instead of getting it from the incidents of the book itself, has\r\n      been the cause of this departure from the ordinary rules.\r\n    \n\r\n      When this book was commenced, it was generally supposed that the Mexican\r\n      war would end, after a few months of hostilities. Such was never the\r\n      opinion of the writer. He has ever looked forward to a protracted\r\n      struggle; and, now that Congress has begun to interfere, sees as little\r\n      probability of its termination, as on the day it commenced. Whence\r\n      honourable gentlemen have derived their notions of the constitution, when\r\n      they advance the doctrine that Congress is an American Aulic council,\r\n      empowered to encumber the movements of armies, and, as old Blucher\r\n      expressed it in reference to the diplomacy of Europe, to spoil with the\r\n      pen the work achieved by the sword, it is difficult to say more than\r\n      this, that they do not get them from the constitution itself. It has\r\n      generally been supposed that the present executive was created in order to\r\n      avoid the very evils of a distracted and divided council, which this new\r\n      construction has a direct tendency to revive. But a presidential election\r\n      has ever proved, and probably will ever prove, stronger than any written\r\n      fundamental law.\r\n    \n\r\n      We have had occasion to refer often to Mexico in these pages. It has been\r\n      our aim to do so in a kind spirit; for, while we have never doubted that\r\n      the factions which have possessed themselves of the government in that\r\n      country have done us great wrong, wrong that would have justified a much\r\n      earlier appeal to arms, we have always regarded the class of Mexicans who\r\n      alone can properly be termed the 'people,' as mild, amiable, and disposed\r\n      to be on friendly terms with us. Providence, however, directs all to the\r\n      completion of its own wise ends. If the crust which has so long encircled\r\n      that nation, enclosing it in bigotry and ignorance, shall now be\r\n      irretrievably broken, letting in light, even Mexico herself may have cause\r\n      hereafter to rejoice in her present disasters. It was in this way that\r\n      Italy has been, in a manner, regenerated; the conquests of the French\r\n      carrying in their train the means and agencies which have, at length,\r\n      aroused that glorious portion of the earth to some of its ancient spirit.\r\n      Mexico, in certain senses, is the Italy of this continent; and war,\r\n      however ruthless and much to be deplored, may yet confer on her the\r\n      inestimable blessings of real liberty, and a religion released from feux\r\n      d'artifice, as well as all other artifices.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4796 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Cooper, James Fenimore \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Cooper, James Fenimore,1789-1851 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212453052573,"sku":"gb-4796-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4796_ef3eca36-4eb0-4b8f-ae22-d1052817d7a4.jpg?v=1671278933"},{"product_id":"20000-lieues-sous-les-mers-part-1-gb-5095","title":"20000 Lieues sous les mers — Part 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers — Part 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL'anne 1866 fut marque par un vnement bizarre, un phnomne inexpliqu et inexplicable que personne n'a sans doute oubli. Sans parler des rumeurs qui agitaient les populations des ports et surexcitaient l'esprit public  l'intrieur des continents les gens de mer furent particulirement mus. Les ngociants, armateurs, capitaines de navires, skippers et masters de l'Europe et de l'Amrique, officiers des marines militaires de tous pays, et, aprs eux, les gouvernements des divers tats des deux continents, se proccuprent de ce fait au plus haut point.\nLes faits relatifs  cette apparition, consigns aux divers livres de bord, s'accordaient assez exactement sur la structure de l'objet ou de l'tre en question, la vitesse inoue de ses mouvements, la puissance surprenante de sa locomotion, la vie particulire dont il semblait dou. Si c'tait un ctac, il surpassait en volume tous ceux que la science avait classs jusqu'alors. Ni Cuvier, ni Lacpde, ni M. 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It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's\r\n      works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazlitt, and that this\r\n      masterly piece of realism, \"Captain Singleton,\" was reprinted a few years\r\n      back in \"The Camelot Classics,\" but it is safe to say that out of every\r\n      thousand readers of \"Robinson Crusoe\" only one or two will have even heard\r\n      of the \"Memoirs of a Cavalier,\" \"Colonel Jack,\" \"Moll Flanders,\" or\r\n      \"Captain Singleton.\" It is indeed distressing to think that while many\r\n      scores of thousands of copies of Lord Lytton's flashy romance, \"Paul\r\n      Clifford,\" have been devoured by the public, \"Captain Singleton\" has\r\n      remained unread and almost forgotten. But the explanation is simple.\r\n      Defoe's plain and homely realism soon grew to be thought vulgar by people\r\n      who themselves aspired to be refined and genteel. 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It might be thought that the good taste\r\n      which led Defoe to write in a style of such pure and unpretending English,\r\n      instead of the inflated manner of vulgar writers, would have dictated a\r\n      more careful selection of his subjects, and kept him from wandering so\r\n      frequently into the low and disgusting purlieus of vice. But this moral\r\n      and tasteful discrimination seems to have been wholly wanting,\" \u0026amp;c.\r\n      The 'forties were the days when critics still talked learnedly of the\r\n      \"noble style,\" \u0026amp;c., \"the vulgar,\" of \"sinking\" or \"rising\" with \"the\r\n      subject,\" the days when Books of Beauty were in fashion, and Rembrandt's\r\n      choice of beggars, wrinkled faces and grey hairs, for his favourite\r\n      subjects seemed a low and reprehensible taste in \"high art.\" Though\r\n      critics to-day still ingenuously confound an artist's subject with his\r\n      treatment of it, and prefer scenes of life to be idealised rather than\r\n      realised by writers, we have advanced a little since the days of the poet\r\n      Montgomery, and it would be difficult now to find anybody writing so\r\n      confidently\"Unfortunately the taste or circumstances of Defoe led\r\n      him mostly into low life,\" however much the critic might believe it. But\r\n      let us glance at a few passages in \"Captain Singleton,\" which may show us\r\n      why Defoe excels as a realist, and why his descriptions of \"low life\" are\r\n      artistically as perfect as any descriptions of \"higher life\" in the works\r\n      of the English novelists. Take the following description of kidnapping:\r\n    \n\r\n      Now here, in a single sentence, Defoe catches for us the whole soul and\r\n      character of the situation. It seems very simple, but it sums up\r\n      marvellously an exact observation and knowledge of the arts of the gipsy\r\n      child-stealer, of her cunning flattery and brassy boldness, and we can see\r\n      the simple little girl running back to the house to tell the nurse that a\r\n      fine lady was kissing the child, and had told her to tell where they were\r\n      and she should not be frightened, \u0026amp;c.; and this picture again calls up\r\n      the hue and cry after the kidnappers and the fruitless hopes of the\r\n      parents. In a word, Defoe has condensed in the eight simple lines of his\r\n      little scene all that is essential to its living truth; and let the young\r\n      writer note that it is ever the sign of the master to do in three words,\r\n      or with three strokes, what the ordinary artist does in thirty. Defoe's\r\n      imagination is so extraordinarily comprehensive in picking out just those\r\n      little matter-of-fact details that suggest all the other aspects, and that\r\n      emphasise the character of the scene or situation, that he makes us\r\n      believe in the actuality of whatever he is describing. So real, so living\r\n      in every detail is this apocryphal narrative, in \"Captain Singleton,\" of\r\n      the crossing of Africa by a body of marooned sailors from the coast of\r\n      Mozambique to the Gold Coast, that one would firmly believe Defoe was\r\n      committing to writing the verbal narrative of some adventurer in the\r\n      flesh, if it were not for certain passagessuch as the description\r\n      of the impossible desert on page 90, which proves that Defoe was piecing\r\n      together his description of an imaginary journey from the geographical\r\n      records and travellers' tales of his contemporaries, aided perhaps by the\r\n      confused yarns of some sailor friends. 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