Name: Sally Bishop - A Romance
Author: E. Temple Thurston
ISBN: 9781406809855

Published:

Oct-2006
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Main Genre:

Romance
Time Period:

Contemporary
Pages:

248
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To Gerald du Maurier MY DEAR GERALD, A mongst the many things which I anticipate in the reception of this hook is the shrug-shoulder smile of critics at my sub-title a Romance. There are canons and rubrics to he observed, it would seem, in the slightest action that a man attempts in this Great World s Fair of Conventionality, whose every side-show is hedged around with the red-tape of the Law. Witness even that delusive proverb there is honour amongst thieves. So is there an unwritten canon in literature and the making of hooks, that a Romance must end with a phrase to convey another illusion, namely, the happiness that is ever after. And so, in this respect, I throw canons to the winds if sounds a herculean feat wash out the printed red of the rubric, and call, perhaps the saddest story I shall write, a Romance. Yet I profess to have a reason beyond mere contrariness. The world of Romance must he at all times an elusive star never capable of being put in the exact same place on any ones
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