My Literary Passions, Criticism & Fiction

æsthetic American amuse artist Balzac Barry Lyndon beautiful began believe better Blithedale Romance Carlo Goldoni Cervantes character Charles Reade charm Christmas Christmas story criticism dare say deal delight Dickens Don Quixote drama dream effect English fact false fancy father feel felt Ferroll fiction George Eliot Goethe Goldsmith heart Heine honest hope human humor ideal imagination imitate Italian Jane Austen kind knew known least less literary passions literature lived master mean mind moods moral nature never notion novel novelist Octave Feuillet once perhaps person play pleasure poems poet poetry printing-office race reader realism romance romanticism Scarlet Letter seems Señor Valdés sense Shakespeare sort soul Spanish story suffered suppose sure taste Tennyson Thackeray things Thomas Hardy thought tion Tolstoy Tourguenief true truth verse village whole wish words write wrote young