Leigh Hunt

Sir Ralph Esher, or Memoirs of a Gentleman of the Court of Charles the Second: Including Those of His Friend Sir Philip Herne (Classic Reprint) Leigh Hunt

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from Sir Ralph Esher, or Memoirs of a Gentleman of the Court of Charles the Second: Including Those of His Friend Sir Philip Herne As this book was first published without the author's name, many of his readers are not aware of his having produced such a work. It had the further disadvantage (if he may presume so to speak) of being published without any intimation of the mould in which it was cast; so that some persons, on opening it, were indisposed to its perusal by not meeting with the instant amount of action and character into which novels are accustomed to plunge; while others, whose acquaintance with the times of which it treated inclined them to read on, found them so scrupulously attended to, beyond what was customary in the historical novel (the relative ages for instance of parties who really exsited having been calculated so as to square with their conduct, no person or event introduced not strictly contemporaneous, and no locality even having been mentioned in which the persons introduced in it would not have been found to have been present on referring to contemporary annals), that a grave inquiry was made of a bookseller by an old reader of such records, as to whether the book was or was not a veritable biography. The author states thus much to give his fiction whatever chances of acceptance, or of indulgence, the state of the case may procure it, and to retreat, if it be found to have no other merits, into those of painstaking. 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. Contributor Bio:  Hunt, Leigh Leigh Hunt was an English essayist, writer, and a friend of Shelley and Keats. He is the author of "Imagination and Fancy" and "What is Poetry? "David Jesson-Dibley is the principal reader for The Professional Author's and Publisher's Association.