novel

• This novel is a strong and serious piece of work; one of a kind that is getting too rare in these days of universal crankiness." —  The Mermaid A Love Tale
• Mrs. Rendalen's visit to the slums, and her recognition of the peculiar scream of her own son in a terrible little ragamuffin, is one of the most remarkable incidents in this remarkable book One thing that especially strikes the reader in this novel is the author's fierce indignation against all shams, deceits, and social lies. —  Essays on Scandinavian Literature
• By Herbert George Wells The hero of this novel is a young man who, through hard work, earns a scholarship and goes to London Written with a frankness verging on Rousseau's, Mr. Wells still uses rare discrimination and the border line of propriety is never crossed. —  The Eternal City
• Form, design, composition, are to be sought in a novel, as in any other work of art; a novel is the better for possessing them. —  The Craft of Fiction
• For desultory reading, for that picking up of a volume now and again which requires permission to forget the plot of a novel, this novel is admirably adapted. —  Thackeray

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