The Irrational Knot: Being The Second Novel Of His Nonage (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From The Irrational Knot: Being The Second Novel Of His Nonage Dublin To London In A Condition Of Extreme Raw Ness And Inexperience Concerning The Specifically English Side Of The Life With Which The Book Pretends To Deal. Everybody Wrote Novels Then. It Was My Second Attempt; And It Shared The Fate Of My First. That Is To Say, Nobody Would Publish It, Though I Tried All The London Publishers And Some American Ones. And I Should Not Greatly Blame Them If I Could Feel Sure That It Was The BookS Faults And Not Its Qualities That Repelled Them. I Have Narrated Elsewhere How In The Course Of Time The Rejected Ms. Became Mrs. Annie BesantS Excuse For Lending Me Her Ever Helping Hand By Publishing It As A Serial In A Little Propagandist Magazine Of Hers. That Was How It Got Loose Beyond All Possibility Of Recapture. It Is Out Of My Power Now To Stand Between It And The Ameri Can Public: All I Can Do Is To Rescue It From Unauthorized Mutilations And Make The Best Of A Jejune Job. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses State-Of-The-Art Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work, Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases, An Imperfection In The Original, Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page, May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do, However, Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.