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A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE MASTER'S BEST KNOWN DRAMAS CONDENSED,
REVISED, AND SLIGHTLY RE ARRANGED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EARNEST STUDENT BY F. ANSTEY AUTHOR OF "VICE VERSA," "VOCES POPULI," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1893 [ All rights reserved ] PREFATORY NOTE The concluding piece, "Pill Doctor Herdal," is, as the observant reader
will instantly perceive, rather a reverent attempt to tread in the
footprints of the Norwegian dramatist, than a version of any actually
existing masterpiece. The author is conscious that his imitation is
painfully lacking in the mysterious obscurity of the original, that the
vein of allegorical symbolism is thinner throughout than it should be,
and that the characters are not nearly so mad as persons invariably are
in real life but these are the faults inevitable to a prentice hand,
and he trusts that due allowances may be made for them by the critical. In conclusion he wishes to express his acknowledgments to Messrs... Continue reading book >>
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