Freaks of Fortune Freaks of Fortune

Freaks of Fortune

Publisher Description

The author is not disposed to apologize for the "exciting" element as some have been pleased to denominate it of this and others of his stories. If goodness and truth have been cast down, if vice and sin have been raised up, in the story, an explanation would not, and ought not to, atone for the crime. The writer degrades no saints, he canonizes no villains. He believes that his young friends admire and love the youthful heroes of the story because they are good and true, because they are noble and self sacrificing, and because they are generous and courageous, and not merely because they engage in stirring adventures. Exciting the youthful mind in the right direction is one thing; exciting it in the wrong direction is quite another thing. Once more it becomes the writer's pleasant duty to acknowledge the kindness of his young friends, as well as of very many parents and guardians, who have so often and so freely expressed their approbation of his efforts to please his readers. He has been continually cheered by their kind letters, and by their constant favor, however manifested; and he cannot help wondering that one who deserves so little should receive so much.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1897
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
242
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
527.2
KB
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