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...ze slave life or the Old South. Though necessarily informed by Joel Chandler Harris's popular Uncle Remus stories and Thomas Nelson Page's plantation fiction, The Conjure Woman consciously moved away from these models, instead offering an almost biting examination of pre- and post-Civil War race relations. These seven short stories use a frame narrator, John, a white carpe...

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short stories

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...sin, a poor subaltern, and the next in the entail? Depend upon it, it is a fiction created either by papa’s hopes or Philip’s self-complacency, or els... ...‘I am glad you entered into it,’ said Philip; ‘it has every quality that a fiction ought to have.’ ‘I never read anything equal to the repentance of t... ...think it hardly safe for so excitable a mind to dwell much on the world of fiction,’ said Philip. ‘Nothing has affected him so much as Sintram,’ said ... ... Each person was to set down his or her favourite character in history and fiction, flower, virtue, and time at which to have lived, and these were al...

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...in real life, than the centaur, the chimera, or any other creature of mere fiction. But to let my reader into a secret, this knowledge of upper life, ...

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Historical Fiction, Mystery

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Teen/Young adult, Fiction

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...ser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal....

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...ey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influ- ence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and cre... ...o is suffering in the most virtuous blank verse. This is the proper end of fiction, and one of the greatest triumphs that a novelist can achieve: for ... ...d customs of the Sheppards and Turpins who were then the popular heroes of fiction. But nowa- days there is no such purpose to serve, and therefore th...

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...e- ginning of the romantic movement and the consequent in- troduction into fiction of a vast amount of new material. Fielding tells us as much as he t... ... drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by looking at the r... ... we shall find Scott himself, in so far as regards his conception of prose fiction and its purposes, surpassed in his own spirit, instead of tamely fo... ...ding would have banished from his altogether, as being out of the field of fiction. So we have elemental forces occupying nearly as large a place, pla... ...onest enthusiasm for religion,” writes Burns; and the pair enter- tained a fiction that this was their “favourite subject.” “This is Sunday,” writes t...

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... begins, perhaps, to fancy that he wrongs them when he weaves them in with fiction; and looking back on them with ever-growing kindness, puts them at ... ...manity, near the bosoms and businesses of men, at the level where history, fiction and experience intersect and illu- minate each other. I am I, and Y... ...n the crags, a return to the sincerity of savage life from the comfortable fictions of the civilised. And if it be delightful to the Old Man, it is no... ...etail and trick of circumstance shall be welcome to the reader’s thoughts. Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he ... ...e loves to recall it and dwells upon its recollection with entire delight, fiction is called romance. Walter Scott is out and away the king of the rom... ... confess, with wonder. For they are both content to talk about the “art of fiction”; and Mr. Besant, waxing exceedingly bold, goes on to oppose this s... ... Besant, waxing exceedingly bold, goes on to oppose this so-called “art of fiction” to the “art of poetry.” By the art of poetry he can mean nothing b... ...m present in the prose novel, too frequently absent from the ode and epic. Fiction is the same case; it is no substantive art, but an element which en... .... Besant’s interesting lecture or Mr. James’s charm- ing essay. The art of fiction, then, regarded as a definition, is both too ample and too scanty. ...