Excerpt from Stones From a Glass House The novelist has a further excuse for writing about novels - that no one can write of them with the same deep in terest. The reader reads each book for its intrinsic interest or value; the novelist reads it as forming part of a literary movement. This is the reason why you may hear the novelist speak of a poor novel, or even of a wretched novel, but you will never hear from his lips that hateful phrase only a novel, because he knows that rightly used the novel is a great form for the expression of great thoughts. The form has, indeed, been more abused than any other, probably from its apparent simplicity; but this is no reason why it should be spoken of with contempt. 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.