My Contemporaries In Fiction

A collection of critical essays, first published in newspapers, in which novelist David Christie Murray assesses his contemporary fiction writers, including Dickens, Reade, Stevenson, Hardy, Kipling, and Corelli, while opposing exaggerated praise in modern criticism.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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