“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the need of money, is the desire to create a world.”

George Saintsbury

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About George Saintsbury

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George Edward Bateman Saintsbury was a highly influential English writer, literary historian, and critic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He held the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the...

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