An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times, by Thomas Hill Green This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Author: Thomas Hill Green Editor: Fred Newton Scott Release Date: March 17, 2007 [EBook #20843] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF FICTION IN MODERN TIMES *** Produced by Robert Connal, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Thomas Hill Green An Estimate of The Value and Influence of Works of Fiction In Modern Times Edited With Introduction and Notes By Fred Newton Scott Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan George Wahr Ann Arbor Michigan 1911 COPYRIGHT Fred Newton Scott 1911 THE ANN ARBOR PRESS ANN ARBOR, MICH. [Pg 5]PREFACE For a good many years I have used this essay of Green's with an advanced class in the theory of prose fiction. It has worked well.