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...FICTITIOUS WRITINGS. have been comparatively failures, (and perhaps fortunately,) since the subjects are too familiar to be treated with the freedom that the...their own conceptions of character, and to qualities that are common to the rest of the world and to human nature. This fact, if its truth be admitted,...

...romance in America, have been comparatively failures, (and perhaps fortunately,) since the subjects are too familiar to be treated with the freedom that th*e...their own conceptions of character, and to qualities that are common to the rest of the world and to human nature. This fact, if its truth be admitted,...

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...American writer must seek his renown in the exhibition of qualities that are general," Cooper explained; "on the whole, the books which have been best received,...most to their own conceptions of character, and to the qualities that are common to the rest of the world and to human nature." 40 Because fiction largely...