No one placed Trollope in the first rank of creative novelists beside Dickens or Thackeray, or beside George Eliot, who had died two years before.
But in the second rank he stood high; and though other novelists may have had as many readers as he, none was in so many ways representative of the general character and spirit of English fiction.
With some novelists dialogue is almost all-powerful.
Yet, allowing all this, there remains to Feuillet's credit such a full and brilliant series of novels, hardly one of which is an actual failure, as very few novelists can show.
Also he was really a good raconteur--a gift which, though perhaps few people have been good novelists without it, does not by itself make a good novelist.
I do not know whether any othernovelists continued the series of diversely coloured "doctors," as the fly-makers have done.
The fourth class provides us with the novelists who wish to place their atmosphere in relation with the rest of life.
Conrad alone of all English novelists shares this zest with the great Russian.
He found in English fiction little that could assist him in this development; the Russian novelists were to supply him with his clue.
There may roughly be said to be four classes of novelists in the matter of atmosphere.
We foresee that the novelists will soon have to draw upon Japan for their villains.
There are not many living novelists or poets that I care about.
But examine thenovelists of the period; what about Fielding?
This is the work which first placed its author among the most brilliant novelists of his day.
It was not until 1886, however, that Valdes began to rank among the foremost novelists of Europe.
The first modern Spanish novelists were what are called the walter-scottistas, although they were inspired as much by George Sand as by the author of Waverley.
This was while we were still in Wales, and she sent for six books by two of those American novelists who are supposed to be the expounders-in-chief of the American girl at home and abroad, and made me read them.
Even greater are the obligations of our English novelists to the testamentary law.
On the social and fiscal results of such a system I forbear to speculate; but, as a sincere friend to Literature in all its branches, I would ask, if that were law, what would become of the Novelists and the Playwrights?
Hummingbirds, bees and novelists gladly draw sustenance from the humblest flowers, at times, but are never averse to the juices of scions of the horticultural nobility.
Novelists can beat painters all hollow at that sort of thing.
Of contemporary writers, Spencer, Harrison, Morley, and Renan stand first in my opinion; whilst of the living novelists I can only say that I endeavour to appreciate all.
He is one of the few French novelists one can imagine writing in English.
Many of the most brilliant of the novelists of the day have relinquished the pen of the romance-writer for that of the politician.
The story is almost subordinated to the drawing of the principal character; it is almost a modern idea of the psychoanalytical kind of novel that our young novelists love to draw.
I have dwelt on this at some length, as Chesterton has a tendency to despise modernnovelists while being one himself.
Of present-day novelists it is in no way fair to compare them to Chesterton; 'some contemporary novelists are better than he is, some are worse.
There are fifty novelists who are interpreters of manners and problems of the twentieth century.
Turning to the great novelists of France, with one or two exceptions, they all bear out the theory of longevity in literature which I have been endeavouring to support.
That must be the reason why novelists fail so lamentably in almost all cases in creating good characters.
Perhaps if our novelists looked at individuals as intently, they might give the world the impression that social life here is as unpleasant as it appears in the novels to be in Russia.
It did not excite his wonder at the time, but afterwards it appeared to him as one of the New England eccentricities of which the novelists make so much.
Now if all the poets and novelists of England and America today were cut up into little pieces (and we might sacrifice a few for the sake of the experiment), there is no inspecting augur who could divine therefrom our literary future.
Everything in man and outside of him has been turned over so often that I should think the novelists would cease simply from want of material.
It matters very little what the novelists and critics say about it--what it is and what it is not; the attitude of society towards it is the important thing.
The novelists had led us to expect something different; and the modest and pretty young lady with frank and open blue eyes, who wore gloves and used the common English speech, had never figured in the fiction of the region.
It is accustomed to this view of life, so much so that it fancies it never knew what war was, or what a battle was, until the novelists began to report them.
I guess the novelists are too near to see the romance of it.
But the conduct of the novelists and the painters makes the task of the conservators of society doubly perplexing.
Her enterprise, her daring, her freedom from conventionality, have been the theme of the novelists and the horror of the dowagers having marriageable daughters.
But other novelists have done these things before him, and have been none the less popular, and are actually none the less readable.
As a result of this discovery not a few novelists have turned playwrights, taking the pains to learn the principles of the more dangerous art of play-making.
This is the basis for the shrewd remark that in dealing with affairs of the heart men novelists rarely tell all they know, whereas women novelists are often tempted to tell more than they know.
If the playwrights find it advantageous to double up, and the novelists do not discover any profit in putting on double harness, there ought to be some evident explanation.
Yet Sir James Barrie and Mr. John Galsworthy, essayists and novelists at first, as Stevenson was, strayed successfully from prose fiction into the acted drama.
The novelists of the twentieth century, so far from holding the drama to be an inferior form, are discovering that it is at least a more difficult form, and therefore artistically more attractive.
If you were wrong, Mr. van Koppen, where would our poets and novelists be?
Now, it would of course be absurd to condemn all modern Russian fiction, or to characterize all admirers of contemporary Russian novelists as hypocrites and sensualists.
In this she is inferior to all the great novelists of her time; inferior to some who were by no means great.
They don't reach round for their revolver, asnovelists say.
Now I begin to despisenovelists who write about siestas in cold climates.
I see now where the fragmentary school of novelists get their material from.
Articles on solid subjects by novelists are printed, well paid for, sought after; it does a paper good to have an article on Imperial Federation by Mr Kipling, or on Feminism by Mr Zangwill.
Journalism rewards a successful novelist better than does the novel, though successful novelists make very good incomes; they often earn as much as the red-nosed comedian with the baggy trousers and the battered bowler.
England is happier, even though nearly all her young novelists are afflicted with a monstrous interest in themselves, and an equally monstrous lack of sympathy with everybody else.
He decides to live down the extraordinary trash that novelists produce.
This is broader, deeper than the work of the women novelists of to-day, who, with the exception of Amber Reeves, are confined in a circle of eternally compounding pallid or purple loves.
Novelists have to take mankind seriously because they want to understand it; mankind is exempt from the obligation because it does not conceive the desire.
Our novelists openly discuss every feature of social life, politics, religion, but they cast over sex a thick veil of ellipse and metaphor.
We have to-day a certain number of fairly courageous novelists whose works are alluded to in other chapters, but they are not completely sincere.
This is vital to the proposition, and explains why so many novelists have sought refuge in the press.
All young women novelists understand the artist, or nobody does; the man they seldom understand is the one who spends fifty years successfully paying bills.
This brings us back to an early conclusion in this chapter; novelists are not useful; we are pleasant, therefore despicable.
But for the full flavour of the romance of this section of Fifth Avenue it is not necessary to go back to the leisurely novelists of the eighties and before.
But now novelists go into every class of society for their heroes, and surely, at least an occasional one of them must have been astigmatic.
Roused by this article to a sense of the injustice of their treatment, the great army of glass-wearing citizens could very easily make novelists see reason.
Novelists are moving with the times in every other direction.
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