Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0428265553
- ISBN-13
- 9780428265557
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-23
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Max Adeler
Description
Excerpt from Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot Itis, therefore, in such communities that search can most profitably be made for raw human nature that has had room to grow upon every side with little check or hindrance. The man who chooses to seek may find original characters, queer combinations of events, surprising revelations Of individual and family experiences and an unlimited fund Of amuse ment, especially if he is disposed, perhaps even while he submits to an overpowering conviction that all life is tragic, to summon into prominence those humorous phases of social existence which, as in the best Of artificial tragedies, are permitted to ap pear in real life as the foil Of that which is truly sorrowful. To depict events that are Simply amus ing may not be the highest and best function Of a writer; but if he has a strong impulse to undertake such a task in the intervals of more serious work, it may be that he performs a duty which is more Ob Vions because the 'common inclination Of those who tell the story Of human life is to present that which is sad and terrible, and to lead the reader, whose soul has bitterness enough Of its own, into contemplation Of the true or fictitious anguish of others. 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.
