Herman Melville Quote

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.


The Confidence-man: His Masquerade (ed. 1857)


It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.