Book: The Cloister And The Hearth, Volume One "The Cloister and the Hearth" is Charles Reade's greatest work--and, I believe, the greatest historical novel in the language. . . . "One can only say that this great writer--there is no greater praise--paints women as they are, men as they are, things as they are. What we call genius is first the power of seeing men, women, and things as they are--most of us, being without genius, are purblind--and then the power of showing them by means of "invention"--by the grafting of "invention" upon fact. No man has shown greater power of grasping fact and of weaving invention upon it than Charles Reade." -- from Walter Besant's introduction (Jacketless library hardcover.)
Details of Book: The Cloister And The Hearth, Volume One Book: The Cloister And The Hearth, Volume One
Author: Charles Reade, Besant Walter
ISBN: 159224923X
ISBN-13: 9781592249237
, 978-1592249237
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 01082002
Publisher: Wildside Press
Number of Pages: 292
Language: English