Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction
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Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction is a book by William Dudley Foulke. One discussion says that if, as some say, the object of fiction is simply to amuse, no work of fiction has better attained that object than Gil Blas. A character named Dr. Sangrado always insisted that those who had been bled to death died because they had not been bled enough and had not taken enough hot water.
Another discussion says Hester's strength in bearing her sorrow is contrasted powerfully with the growing weakness and degeneracy of Dimmesdale, and with the transformation of Chillingworth into a devil. A discussion says the moral of the book comes from the poor minister’s miserable experience and is put into the sentence “Be true, be true, be true; show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.” The writer lists the selections he made, arranged chronologically, including, among others, Rabelais “Gargantua”, Cervantes “Don Quixote” and Defoe “Robinson Crusoe”.
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- William Dudley Foulke
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- 142
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- English
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