| Author: | Aphra Behn | ISBN: | 1230000279755 |
| Publisher: | True North | Publication: | November 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Aphra Behn |
| ISBN: | 1230000279755 |
| Publisher: | True North |
| Publication: | November 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention.
I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention.
