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A HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH PROSE FICTION

BY
BAYARD TUCKERMAN

NEW YORK & LONDON
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1894


COPYRIGHT BY
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1882


TO
MY FATHER,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED


PREFACE.

It is attempted in this volume to trace the gradual progress of English
Prose Fiction from the early romance to the novel of the present day,
in such connection with the social characteristics of the epochs to
which these works respectively belong, as may conduce to a better
comprehension of their nature and significance.
As many of the earlier specimens of English fiction are of a character
or a rarity which makes any acquaintance with them difficult to the
general public, I have endeavored so to describe their style and
contents that the reader may obtain, to some degree, a personal
knowledge of them.
The novels of the nineteenth century are so numerous and so generally
familiar, that, in the chapter devoted to this period, I have sought
rather to point out the great importance which fiction has assumed, and
the variety of forms which it has taken, than to attempt any exhaustive
criticism of individual authors--a task already sufficiently performed
by writers far more able to do it justice.
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