One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
-- George Saintsbury
   
George Saintsbury   Name:
George Saintsbury
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
English
Birth:
October 23, 1845
Death:
January 28, 1933
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