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Parker, Gilbert, 1860-1932

"Mrs. Falchion, Complete"

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Reading Mrs. Falchion again after all these years, I seem to realise in
it an attempt to combine the objective and subjective methods of
treatment--to combine analysis of character and motive with arresting
episode. It is a difficult thing to do, as I have found. It was not done
on my part wholly by design, but rather by instinct, and I imagine that
this tendency has run through all my works. It represents the elements of
romanticism and of realism in one, and that kind of representation has
its dangers, to say nothing of its difficulties. It sometimes alienates
the reader, who by instinct and preference is a realist, and it troubles
the reader who wants to read for a story alone, who cares for what a
character does, and not for what a character is or says, except in so far
as it emphasises what it does. One has to work, however, in one's own
way, after one's own idiosyncrasies, and here is the book that represents
one of my own idiosyncrasies in its most primitive form.

CONTENTS:
BOOK I
BELOW THE SUN LINE
I. THE GATES OF THE SEA
II. "MOTLEY IS YOUR ONLY WEAR"
III.


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