The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future

The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future

Once upon a time, in earlier and less congested days of literary effort, an Author was accustomed to address the Public as Gentle Reader. It was a civil phrase, involving a pretty piece of flattery. It implied three things: first, that if the Reader were not gentle, the Authors courtesy might persuade him or her to become sosecondly, that criticism, whether favourable or the reverse, might perhaps be generously postponed till the reading of the book was finished,and thirdly, that the Author had no wish to irritate the Readers feelings, but rather sought to prepare and smooth the way to a friendly understanding. Now I am at one with my predecessors in all these delicate points of understanding, and as I am about to relate what every person of merely average intelligence is likely to regard as an incredible narrative, I think it as well to begin politely, in the old-fashioned grand manner of appeal, which is half apologetic, and half conciliatory. Gentle Reader, therefore, I pray you to be friends with me! Do not lose either patience or temper while following the strange adventures of a very strange woman,though in case you should be disappointed in seeking for what you will not find, let me say at once that my story is not of the Sex Problem type. No! My heroine is not perverted from the paths of decency and order, or drawn to a bad end; in fact, I cannot bring her to an end at all, as she is still very much alive and doing uncommonly well for herself. Any end for Diana May would seem not only incongruous, but manifestly impossible. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66320
Author: Corelli, Marie
Release Date: Sep 17, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: William Briggs
Publication Date: 1918
Publisher Country: Canada