Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By Dickens, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0000676180
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.93 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Author:	Dickens, Charles
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?