The British Barbarians: A Hill-top Novel

Description

A passage from the book...This is a Hill-top Novel. I dedicate it to all who have heart enough, brain enough, and soul enough to understand it. What do I mean by a Hill-top Novel? Well, of late we have been flooded with stories of evil tendencies: a Hill-top Novel is one which raises a protest in favour of purity. Why have not novelists raised the protest earlier? For this reason. Hitherto, owing to the stern necessity laid upon the modern seer for earning his bread, and, incidentally, for finding a publisher to assist him in promulgating his prophetic opinions, it has seldom happened that writers of exceptional aims have been able to proclaim to the world at large the things which they conceived to be best worth their telling it.

First Sentence

THE time was Saturday afternoon; the place was Surrey; the person of the drama was Philip Christy.

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Other Editions

• The British Barbarians: A Hill-top NovelG. P. Putnam's sons1895-01-01
• The British barbariansG.P. Putnam's1895-01-01
• The British BarbariansMicroformG.P. Putnam's Sons1895-01-01
• The British barbariansMicroformG.P. Putnam's Sons1895-01-01
• The British barbariansG.P. Putnam's Sons1895-01-01
• The British barbariansG. P. Putnam's Sons1895-01-01