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A Simple Story
It is said, a book should be read with the same spirit with which it has been written. In that case, fatal must be the reception of thisfor the writer frankly avows, that during the time she has been writing it, she has suffered every quality and degree of weariness and lassitude, into which no other employment could have betrayed her. It has been the destiny of the writer of this Story to be occupied throughout her life, in what has the least suited either her inclination or capacitywith an invincible impediment in her speech, it was her lot for thirteen years to gain a subsistence by public speakingand, with the utmost detestation to the fatigue of inventing, a constitution suffering under a sedentary life, and an education confined to the narrow boundaries prescribed her sex, it has been her fate to devote a tedious seven years to the unremitting labour of literary productionswhilst a taste for authors of the first rank has been an additional punishment, forbidding her one moment of those self-approving reflections, which are assuredly due to the industrious. But, alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. What then is to be substituted in the place of genius? GOOD FORTUNE. And if these volumes should be attended by the good fortune that has accompanied her other writings, to that divinity, and that alone, she shall attribute their success. Yet, there is a first cause still, to whom I cannot here forbear to mention my obligations. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 22002
Author: Inchbald, Mrs.
Release Date: Jul 5, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editor: Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932
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