Chapter 176

Count Henrietta wrote a lot, which liberated the depression of more than ten years in one breath. The article is full of denouncing some concepts of traditional novelists and his understanding of literature.

He may have been waiting for this day for a long time. He likes literature very much. He has been moved by poetry, and he has also liked those sentimental essays. The type of literature that he can't extricate himself from most is fiction. Fiction accompanies him through countless days and nights when he went to university. With the improvement of his literary accomplishment, one day, he suddenly found that those novels that had made him addicted to become boring, began to reduce the amount of reading novels, and joined the Literary Association in order to find reasons.

The more novels he came into contact with, the more he understood the reasons. Norton's literature was too stereotyped, too much focused on criticizing sociality, expressing disdain for power and wealth, exposing the ugliness of human nature, causing thinking and so on.

This is not a bad thing originally, but it seems too boring in this new era of rapid change. It seems that there is an invisible circle in literature, and it is difficult for any works to get out of this strange circle《 The count of Monte Cristo is a work that breaks this strange circle. It is contradictory. At first glance, the story looks similar to traditional literary works. However, its plot is full of the author's cognition of human nature. It does not elaborate too much and adds some elements of readers' expectation.

A revenge play? Count Henrietta read out the flavor of fairy tales again. They are just adult fairy tales that can stand scrutiny and thinking.

That's why count of Monte Cristo gave count Henrietta an unprecedented sense of wonder.

Now what prompted count Henrietta to write this special report is "the dark age", which is also a novel that he can enjoy reading all night.

Harvey reviewer Pran's Publishing House has a cooperative relationship with his publishing house. Before the dark age was published, he sent a sample novel to him for examination. When he got the novel, count Henrietta was so happy that he decided to squeeze out time to finish it.

The content of the novel didn't disappoint him, even more than the count of Monte Cristo.

The dark age makes up a magical and strange world, creating a grand background, the confrontation between darkness and light. There are heroic epics, treacherous villains, or ordinary people struggling to survive in this era. It seems that it directly presents what happened in ancient times to readers in the form of words.

Compared with count of Monte Cristo, the dark age shocked him even more!

The first half million words describes the enmity between the two countries and the choice of the two countries in the face of the invasion of foreign enemies. The Dark Lord led the alien forces to invade. The alien forces set up the primitive catapult and easily destroyed the city wall. The huge primitive giant animals collided with the city gate, and the human soldiers struggled to resist.

In this context, the relationship between countries and personal grudges become complicated, and the plot is crisscrossed with bright and dark lines. Each plot is closely related to the characters, and the writing is very clear, which will not make the readers around the clouds. At the same time, because of the urgent time line constructed by the war, the whole story gives count Henrietta a sense of suffocation, It was as if he was standing in front of a million troops, nervously watching the cavalry charging.

Count Henrietta felt very incredible, if not for the heavy burden of phantom affairs, he had to study the dark age inside and outside.

If there is any dissatisfaction, the plot of the novel is broken at a critical time. A highly respected caster is preparing to go to another country to help the king resist the army of beasts. Count Henrietta was very much looking forward to the next plot development. He was afraid that he would read the outline of the novel, so he sent the novel and the outline to his scholar friend Scott for appreciation. The reply was that the novel was far higher than his evaluation.

He was relieved, and then burned the outline of the novel, for fear that he could not help reading it ahead of time.

In addition, Scott's reply was accompanied by a kind greeting. It was the first time that count Henrietta saw his friend's fierce praise.

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Elroy, early morning.

After a whole day's sale of the dark age in the bookstore, there were not a few people standing outside the street. Instead, they lined up in another street. Many people in the queue came with stools and prepared their stoves for heating. There were all kinds of carriages on both sides of the street, most of which were not local carriages in Elroy.

After the news of the sale of Harvey's new novels spread, people from other cities rushed to buy them by train. More and more people were queuing up.

The two security teams kept order at the scene. Yesterday, there were many conflicts because they cut in the line. Many of the people queuing here were noble servants. Once something really happened, the security team was responsible.

Before the bookstore opened, several children across the street were holding a small pile of hardcover novels and shouting, "gentlemen, do you want to buy books? Harvey Adrian's new novels can be bought here without waiting in line. The quantity is not very large. "

It's stipulated in the bookstore that every guest can only buy two copies at most. Yesterday, many ordinary children queued up to buy novels, and then reselled them to earn a profit. Each book can be sold at three or four times the high price. The bookstore has sufficient supply, but its facade is too small. It can only let a fixed number of customers in and out at a time. Some customers who are not poor in money are naturally more willing to spend money to buy books from children.

A coach waiting to see the procession slowly stopped around the children. The children looked at each other happily. They gathered around and cried, "Sir, do you want to buy a novel?"

"Ka ~"

The door of the carriage opened and a bald man came down. When the child saw him, he was stunned. His smile was stiff and he stammered, "Mr. cook, why are you here?"

A bald man named cook leaned on a cane and looked down at them with a black face: "when you have time to line up and resell books, don't you have to work? Tell me, are you authorized to be here? "

In this era, there is no concept of child labor. It's not easy for common children to survive. Most common families who can't afford to send their children to school will choose to send their children to work in factories to earn money.

"Sir..."

"Sir, you know that selling books here can earn more than ten times the daily income of working here." One of the children cried out with great reason.

Cook's face was even more gloomy. As soon as he was about to make trouble, he saw that someone had already come this way. The purpose of looking at the children's books was also to look at them. He quickly waved his hand: "go back, kids. I'll buy these books, and I'll pay you tomorrow."

The children looked at each other and understood each other's eyes. It took them several weeks to buy the book alone. They rashly handed the book to the notorious stingy boss, who estimated that he would find an excuse to deduct it the next day. The first child made a grimace at him: "hum, we don't want to sell it to you."

Cook glared and said, "do you want to work or not?"

The children looked at each other and said with one voice, "Oh, of course not. Before we sneaked out, we decided not to work with you."

The money they earn from reselling books is higher than their monthly salary, which can also help them find a better job.

"Son of a bitch!" Cook raised his hand to fight, but a guest had come to the child to choose a novel. He was itching with hatred. He looked at the long line across the street and quickly took out a gold coin from his pocket: "take it!"

The child kindly reminded: "Sir, this money is only enough for you to buy one."

"You... Cook is depressed and wants to vomit blood, but he has to pay for several books. The novel is new and hard to buy. It's very suitable as a social gift. After a period of time, the value of the novel's gift will be much lower. If he hires people to line up, it will cost more. He is waiting here because he hears someone reselling books.