Teverino; A Romance (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: W. P. Fetridge Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / European / German Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PEEFACE. Teveriwo is a pure fantasy, from which each reader must draw his own conclusion. It was begun in Paris, in 1845, and finished in the country, without any plan, and with no other end in view, than that of painting an original character, a strange destiny, improbable to people of rank, but well known to those who have mingled freely with the various classes of artists. These natures, so admirably endowed, which cannot or will not employ to advantage the rich faculties of their minds in the drudgery of official society, are not rare; and this independence, this idleness, this exaggerated disinterestedness, is even the proper tendency of minds so peculiarly the recipients of the gifts of Providence. Men of special aptitudes discover and pursue, in face of all obstacles, the path of life marked out for them. My hero is of a different type: his is one of those rich natures, which, feeling itself capable of equal development in every direction, never undertakes or accomplishes anything In Teverino, I have taken the liberty of slightly poetiz ing the excessive candor and delicacy of sentiment found in a soul struggling with the expedients of misery. Of course, the paradoxes which seduce his imagination aro not to ie taken" literally, nor must the reader believe that the author aims at the absurdity of attempting to prove that the soul's perfect...