This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...while Swift was fifty-nine when The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver was given to the world. Scott was forty-three when Waverley was brought out (though he planned it some years earlier); Thackeray was forty-one when he wrote Esmond, and Dickens thirty-eight when David Copperficld first saw the light; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...while Swift was fifty-nine when The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver was given to the world. Scott was forty-three when Waverley was brought out (though he planned it some years earlier); Thackeray was forty-one when he wrote Esmond, and Dickens thirty-eight when David Copperficld first saw the light; Disraeli was over forty when Coningsby, Sybil, and Tancred appeared, and more than sixty when he wrote Lothair; Kingsley was thirty-seven when he published Westward Ho! Wilkie Collins composed The Woman in White, No Name, and The Moonstone between the ages of thirtyfive and forty-five; George Eliot was thirty-nine when Adam Bede and fifty when Middlemarch appeared; while Trollope wrote Barchester Towers when he was forty-two, and Meredith was fifty-one when The Egoist proclaimed that another master of fiction had entered the field prepared to hold his own against all comers. Reade was forty-five when he published in the columns of Once a Week a medieval romance entitled A Good Fight. The editor, however, tampered with his 'copy, ' and the author brought the story to an abrupt conclusion. In 1861 Reade published it, having in the interval entirely rewritten and revised it, under the title of The Cloister and the Hearth. This work will presently be considered. Following the historical novel, Reade returned to his realistic method in a sequel to Love me Little, Love me Long, which, when published in All the Year Round, was entitled Very Hard Cash, but was subsequently issued in book-form as Hard Cash (1863). This story is a dashing narrative of adventure, and contains fine passages descriptive of a university boat-race, of a trial, and of a fire at a madhouse. It was Reade's purpose to expose the system of private lunatic asylums and to point out the..
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