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Title: The Eternal City

Author: Hall Caine

Release Date: November 7, 2006 [EBook #19732]

Language: English

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THE ETERNAL CITY

By Hall Caine

Author of "The Christian," etc.

"He looked for a city which hath
foundations whose builder and maker is
God."

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1901, 1902
By HALL CAINE
Popular Edition

Published October, 1902

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PREFACE TO THIS EDITION

Has a novelist a right to alter his novel after its publication, to
condense it, to add to it, to modify or to heighten its situations, and
otherwise so to change it that to all outward appearance it is
practically a new book? I leave this point in literary ethics to the
consideration of those whose business it is to discuss such questions,
and content myself with telling the reader the history of the present
story.

About ten years ago I went to Russia with some idea (afterwards
abandoned) of writing a book that should deal with the racial struggle
which culminated in the eviction of the Jews from the holy cities of
that country, and the scenes of tyrannical administration which I
witnessed there made a painful and lasting impression on my mind. The
sights of the day often followed me through the night, and after a more
than usually terrible revelation of official cruelty, I had a dream of