 | Walter Besant - 1885 - 106 pages
...less favorable to our immortal part than a stage-play, was in reality far less insulting. ' The ^jonly reason for the existence of a novel is that it does compete with life. When it ceases to compete as the canvas of the painter competes, it will have arrived at a very strange... | |
 | Henry James - 1888 - 438 pages
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 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...as little less favourable to our immortal part than a stage-play, was in reality far less insulting. The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. When it relinquishes this attempt, the same attempt that we see on the canvas... | |
 | Van Wyck Brooks - 1925 - 186 pages
...effort of the novelist is to know," he was observing at this very moment in Partial Portraits; and "the only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life." It was natural, therefore, that he should have been so cautious in surrendering... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1930 - 554 pages
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 | Bernard Smith - 1939 - 424 pages
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. 
