: Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Hamilton Clayton Meeker Matthews Brander Commentator - Fiction

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CONCERNING THE DEAD AND THE LIVING

CHAP.

THE DRAWINGS UPON THE WALL

THE OTHER SIDE

THE FOLLY OF THE WISE

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

PREFATORY NOTE

I will ask my readers kindly to understand that this book is altogether a work of fiction. The characters it portrays, their circumstances and the episodes in which they play a part, are my own invention.

Every sincere and scientific student of human nature and the social scene must, of necessity, depend upon direct observation of life for his general types--the said types being the composite photographs with which study and observation have supplied him. But, for the shaping of individual characters out of the said types, he should, in my opinion, rely exclusively upon his imagination and his sense of dramatic coherence. Exactly in proportion as he does this can he claim to be a true artist. Since the novel, to be a work of art, must be impersonal, neither autobiographical nor biographical.--I am not, of course, speaking of the historical novel, whether the history involved be ancient or contemporary, nor am I speaking of an admitted satire.

LUCAS MALET.

CONCERNING THE DEAD AND THE LIVING

ADRIAN SAVAGE

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