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OverviewPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH DE FOE. To literary reputation may be applied the same remark that the Grecian Sage made on human happiness, when the prosperous career of an individual was commented on, ?' Wait till the end: ' and certainly it is only when a writer is removed from the possibility of increasing his works, that the real merits of those he leaves behind him are impartially ascertained. Time is the test of excellence: all that is remembered independent of the passions and interests of the period in which it was brought forth, must be remembered solely for its intrinsic worth, and for its accordance with those principles of truth, which, being inherent in'the nature of man, awaken his sympathies with the same irresistible power, age after age, in all conditions of society. Hence he who could be assured that his name should be wafted by the breath of popularity, even with only one of his works, steadily down the stream of time, might be well contented though all his other productions should be Vol. I. a gradually swallowed up in its oblivious gulf. The author of Robinson Crusoe may be. deemed one of the most remarkable instances of this concentration of interest and renown in a single performance, that ever appeared.in the annals of literature. More than two hundred publications flowed from his ever-ready pen; all of them powerful and appropriate at the time of their appearance; yet their interest has gradually died away with the subjects which gave them birth, and the greater proportion of them, till lately, have been only to be found resting undisturbed in the libraries of the- curious, or chance-preserved, on the humbler book-stall. Robinson Crusoe, however, still forms the delight of all readers; the young and old, the rich and poor: the celebrity of his advent... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel DefoePublisher: General Books LLC Imprint: General Books LLC Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.301kg ISBN: 9781458923325ISBN 10: 1458923320 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 03 August 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |