Download or read book Essays on French Novelists written by George Saintsbury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on French Novelists All the essays in this volume, with one exception, originally appeared in the Fortnightly Review, to the editors and publishers of which periodical I owe my best thanks for permission to reprint them. The one exception is the essay on Lesage, which appeared as the introduction to a reprint of the translation (known as Smollett's) of Gil Bias, published some ten years ago by Mr. Nimmo, whose license to reproduce I have, also thankfully, to acknowledge. Of the others, the opening essay, which has been very considerably remodelled, appeared in February 1888, that on Anthony Hamilton in October 1890, A Study of Sensibility in September 1882. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.