Excerpt from A Dazzling ReprobateThe pestilential forests of satire are as full of them as the Andes with unexplored wealth. Your sober novelist, like the long-established merchant, looks askance at any attempt to develop such realms. They smell of wild cat. 80 their exploitation is left to dare-devil, adventurous, and consequently questionable pioneers who, if they come back from the frontiers of literature with fortune, are belauded and, if without, threatened with condign punishment - the usual conventional story.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.