Excerpt from The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant, Embracing Romance, Comedy Verse, for the First Time Complete in English The public as a whole consists of diverse groups, whose cry to us authors is: Comfort me Amuse me, Touch me, Make me dream, Make me laugh, Make me shudder, Make me weep, Make me think. Only a few chosen spirits say to the artist: Give me something good in any shape that suits you best, according to your own tempera ment. The artist makes the attempt; and succeeds or fails. The critic should judge the result only in rela tion to the nature of the attempt; he has no business to trouble himself about tendencies. This has been said a thousand times already; it will always bear repetition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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