Original sentence: According to Blackmore's preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because he neither "dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel.Blackmore expended great effort, in all of his novels, on his characters' dialogues and dialects.He strove to recount realistically not only manners but also tones and accents in which thoughts and pronouncements are formed by different sorts of people who lived in the Doone Valley.The work, as Blackmore claims, relied on a "phonogogic" style for his characters' speech, which emphasized their accent and manner of forming words
Edited sentence: According to Blackmore, he relied on a "phonogogic" style for his characters' speech, emphasizing their accents and word formation.According to the preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because he neither "dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel.He expended great effort, in all of his novels, on his characters' dialogues and dialects, striving to recount realistically not only the ways, but also the tones and accents, in which thoughts and utterances were formed by the various sorts of people who lived in the Doone Valley