There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.


Northanger Abbey (1818)


There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have...

There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have...

There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have...

There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have...