On the Idea of Social Reform Novel about the Homeless
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In 1902, the great social reform novelist Frank Norris wrote: If the novel were not one of the most important factors of modern life...if its influence were not greater than all the pulpits, than all the newspapers between the oceans, it would not be so important that its message should be true. ..The people look today as they never have looked before, as they never will look again, to the writer of fiction to give them an idea of Life beyond their limits, and they believe him as they never have believed before and never will again.
On the Idea of Social Reform Novel about the Homeless
On the Idea of Social Reform Novel about the…
On the Idea of Social Reform Novel about the Homeless
In 1902, the great social reform novelist Frank Norris wrote: If the novel were not one of the most important factors of modern life...if its influence were not greater than all the pulpits, than all the newspapers between the oceans, it would not be so important that its message should be true. ..The people look today as they never have looked before, as they never will look again, to the writer of fiction to give them an idea of Life beyond their limits, and they believe him as they never have believed before and never will again.