The Abbot (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514888018)

From what is said in the Introduction to the Monastery, it must necessarily be inferred, that the Author considered that romance as something very like a failure. It is true, the booksellers did not complain of the sale, because, unless on very felicitous occasions, or on those which are equally the reverse, literary popularity is not gained or lost by a single publication. Leisure must be allowed for the tide both to flow and ebb. But I was conscious that, in my situation, not to advance was in some Degree to recede, and being naturally unwilling to think that the principle of decay lay in myself, I was at least desirous to know of a certainty, whether the degree of discountenance which I had incurred, was now owing to an ill-managed story, or an ill-chosen subject.

Author: Walter Scott
ISBN-10: 1514888017
ISBN-13: 9781514888018
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2015
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.35d