"Spread-out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Culottes, symbolising and in a way giving a history of the times of the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration, and finishing with "July"—seems to me again a failure. As I have said, Paul could not manage history, least of all spread-out history like this; and the characters, or rather personages, though of the lower and lower-middle rank, which he could manage best, are to me totally uninteresting. Others may have been, or may be, more fortunate ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
