Carl Clinton Van Doren: The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren


		Name: Carl Clinton Van Doren Type: Critic Nationality: American Birth: September 10, 1885 Death: July 18, 1950

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