| Martin Chuzzlewit Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 151226735X ISBN-13: 9781512267358 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.87 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.56 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience, more curious than the speculation I have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some counterpart of that character has incredulously asked me: "Now really, did I ever really, see one like it?" |