The Edgar Pangborn by Edgar Pangborn
Author:Edgar Pangborn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, mystery, adventure, sci-fi, pulp
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2016-02-19T16:00:00+00:00
WILDERNESS OF SPRING
Originally published in 1958.
DEDICATION
To my Sister,
MARY C. PANGBORN
AUTHORâS NOTE
Pastor John Williams of Deerfield is a historical figure; Belding, Stebbins, Hoyt, Wells and Hawks were actual names in the Deerfield of 1704. With these minor exceptions, all characters in this novel are completely fictitious, not intended to suggest any actual person living or dead.
The language of the dialogue is a compromise, an attempt to convey some quality of early eighteenth-century speech, but not to create a literal reproduction of it, since that might be tedious and obscure in some places to modern readers. For a literal reproduction the worst nuisance would have been those words, such as ânaughty,â that have changed not in form but in meaning or emotional charge. I have tried to avoid all these except where the context should make plain their archaic sense. I think the use of âtheeâ and âthouâ is substantially correct. At that time the second person singular could be used in English as in most European languages today, for intimates and children, but the universal âyouâ was already displacing it. The third person singular verb ending was obsolescent but still in some use; âhathâ and âdothâ seem to have survived long after the ending was abandoned in other verbs.
In the modern (Everyman) edition of Montaigne, the essay that Mr. Kenny asks for is entitled âOf Trainingâ instead of âUse Makes Perfect.â The copy from Mr. Kennyâs library was the seventeenth-century translation by Charles Cotton.
My special thanks to Mrs. Kelsey Flower of Deerfield, who gave me welcome aid with the research; and to the personnel of the State Library at Albany, N.Y. for their unfailing helpfulness and courtesy.
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