Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Frank Fairlegh, Vol. 1: Or Scenes From the Life of a Private Pupil
In the delineation of character, my desire has been to paint men as they are, rather than as they should be; and the moral (if moral there be) is to be derived quite as much from their faults as from their virtues. To this design must: also be traced all inconsistencies of character, - as, for ex ample, when Frank Fairlcgh, pcsscssing sufficient religious principle to enable him to look upon duelling as a crime which no combination of circumstances can justify, yet be comes involved in such an affair himself. These short comings doubtless evince a lamentable contrast to the perfection of the stereotyped novel hero; but as it has never been my good fortune to meet with that faultless monster, a perfectly consistent man, or woman, I prefer describing character as I find it.
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