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Quotation from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”
The House of the Seven Gables, Author's Preface (Project Gutenberg #77)
The opening sentence of the preface, where Hawthorne distinguishes the Romance from the Novel.
Citation: "When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Author's Preface (Project Gutenberg #77). (id the-house-of-the-seven-gables-q1)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
