What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life cleare...r than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of the air of fable ... the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the fac...ts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »