13 Metaphors for fictions

All fiction is such a shadowing forth of the soul.

BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN, an American novelist, born in Philadelphia, of Quaker connection; his best-known fictions are "Wieland," "Edgar Huntly," &c. (1771-1810).

Fiction remains for him the essence of poetry, for fiction in prose is poetry.

The view that the original Penates of Rome were preserved not, as had hitherto been believed, in their temple in the Roman Forum, but in the shrine at Lavinium, could not but be offensive to the Romans; and the Greek fiction was a still worse expedient, inasmuch as under it the gods only bestowed on the grandson what they had adjudged to the grandsire.

Now that fiction containing anything of the Great Struggle is anathema to editors, and must wait for that indefinite time of its revival, it was like getting a last bargain to read "Facing It," "Humoresque," "Contact," "Autumn Crocuses," and "England to America."

The drama may be called the art of crises, as fiction is the art of gradual developments.

Fiction has been its chief occupation ever since.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

English fiction became pure, dirty stories were to be heard no more, were no longer procurable.

Fiction has always been the sphere of the most unrestrained license, yet Dunlop wrote in his History of Fiction that there are in this story "particular passages so extremely reprehensible that I know nothing like them in almost any work whatever."

And all sorts of things that inevitably mar the tense illusion which is the aim of the short storythe introduction, for example, of the author's personalityany comment that seems to admit that, after all, fiction is fiction, a change in manner between part and part, burlesque, parody, invective, all such thing's are not necessarily wrong in the novel.

[Foonote 37: This ghastly fiction is a rare instance of the meeting of physical horror with the truest pathos.]

His work dealt with wars, diplomacy and politics; his fictions were twenty-year-old appeals, so that Beth felt her present depth of mood to be fathoms deeper than his story instinct.

13 Metaphors for  fictions