{"product_id":"the-pictures-the-betrothing-novels-gb-31912","title":"The Pictures The Betrothing: Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tale ought never to stand in need of a preface or commentary. The\r\nbest are those which are the most strictly national and in the highest\r\nsense of the word popular, which touch immediately the sympathies of\r\nthe living generation, and display the common elements of our nature,\r\nthe purely human, under the social relations most familiar to the\r\nauthor and the reader. For then essence and form are most intimately,\r\nbecause naturally and unconsciously blended; neither is exclusively\r\nstudied, or sacrificed to the other. But even when it is the poet's\r\nendeavour, as it is often the highest exercise of his high vocation, to\r\nrecall the image of the past with its individual peculiarities, to\r\nrefresh the fading colours of an important, but half-forgotten period,\r\nto catch and raise the faint tones of an expiring tradition; when even\r\nhis historical groundwork is fixed in a remote age and a foreign scene,\r\nstill the tale ought to contain every thing necessary for it to be\r\nfully felt and understood within itself. It should not only be\r\ncompletely independent of any formal introduction or addition, but\r\nshould even be able to dispense with the aid of those digressions and\r\nreflexions and elaborate descriptions, which are in fact only prefaces\r\nout of their place, or notes taken up into the text, and which\r\nsometimes disfigure even the best of our modern novels, and dispel the\r\nillusion created by the poet's genius, by taking us behind his magic\r\nlantern and shewing us the machinery of his art. This will apply in\r\nmost cases to translations of such works. It may however sometimes\r\nhappen, that a tale perfectly intelligible and luminous in the circle\r\nof readers for which it was designed may to a different public seem\r\nobscure, or give occasion for misapprehension. Such is most frequently\r\nthe case with those which belong most exclusively to the age and\r\ncountry of the writer, when he does not merely aim at exhibiting human\r\nnature clothed in the existing forms of society, but takes for his\r\nimmediate theme the spirit and tendency of the times in which he lives,\r\nthe principles and opinions, the tastes and the pursuits of his\r\ngeneration. In works of this nature many things will be taken for\r\ngranted, many slightly alluded to, with which a foreigner is\r\nimperfectly, if at all, acquainted; the whole representation may wear a\r\npartial aspect, which, though in the society where it originated it may\r\nbe sure of finding sufficient correctives, may elsewhere perplex and\r\nmislead.\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: 31912 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tieck, Ludwig \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 7, 2010 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tieck, Ludwig,1773-1853 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219718766749,"sku":"gb-31912-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/31912.jpg?v=1671531975","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-pictures-the-betrothing-novels-gb-31912","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}