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Title: The Morgesons
Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Release Date: May 14, 2004 [eBook #12347]
Language: English
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THE MORGESONS
A Novel
BY ELIZABETH STODDARD
1901
"Time is a clever devil,"--BALZAC
[Illustration: Portrait of Elizabeth Stoddard from a Daguerreotype.]
PREFACE.
I suppose it was environment that caused me to write these novels;
but the mystery of it is, that when I left my native village I did
not dream that imagination would lead me there again, for the simple
annals of our village and domestic ways did not interest me; neither
was I in the least studious. My years were passed in an attempt to
have a good time, according to the desires and fancies of youth. Of
literature and the literary life, I and my tribe knew nothing; we had
not discovered "sermons in stones." Where then was the panorama of
my stories and novels stored, that was unrolled in my new sphere? Of
course, being moderately intelligent I read everything that came in
my way, but merely for amusement.
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