Abbé Prévost (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Abbé Prévost has been described as the first truly self-supporting man of letters in France. According to the Henry Harrisse edition, Prévost published more than 120 volumes during his career, including more than forty translations; histories of travel; moral and didactic tracts on various subjects of contemporary interest; and more than thirty volumes of prose fiction. He also founded a literary journal entitled Le Pour et contre, which appeared from 1733 to 1740 and was designed as a forum for the discussion of European writers. Prévost’s...
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