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A Simpleton
Charles Reade
A Simpleton
Charles Reade
It has lately been objected to me, in studiously courteous terms of course, that I borrow from other books, and am a plagiarist. To this I reply that I borrow facts from every accessible source, and am not a plagiarist. The plagiarist is one who borrows from a homogeneous work: for such a man borrows not ideas only, but their treatment. He who borrows only from heterogeneous works is not a plagiarist. All fiction, worth a button, is founded on facts; and it does not matter one straw whether the facts are taken from personal experience, hearsay, or printed books; only those books must not be works of fiction. Ask your common sense why a man writes better fiction at forty than he can at twenty. It is simply because he has gathered more facts from each of these three sources, -experience, hearsay, print.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 15, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781981170876 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 344 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |
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