A History I Story of Story-Telling Studies in the Development of Narrative (Classic Reprint)

This is a spring day, and I am writing in a flood of sunlight in front of a brown French inn. A bove my head there is the dusty branch of a tree stuck out of a window, the ancient sign that gave point to the proverb, Good wine needs no bush. Grood books, I suppose, need no prefaces. But honest authors realise that their books are never as good as they had planned them. A preface, put on last and worn in front, to show what they would have liked their books to be, is the pleasantest of their privileges. And I am not inclined to do without it. A book that calls itself a history of a subject with as many byeways and blind alleys as exist in the history of story-telling, is precisely the kind of book that one would wish ones enemy to have written. Everybody who reads it grumbles because something or other is left out that, if they had had the writing of it, would have been put in.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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