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Fennel and Rue: A Novel (Classic Reprint)
Fennel and Rue A Novel - Classic Reprint Author:William Dean Howells I THE success of Verrian did not come early, and it did not come easily. lIe had been trying a long time to get his work into the best ll1agmdnes, and when he had won the favor of the editors, whose interest he had perhaps had from the beginning, it might be said that they began to accept his work fronl their consciences, because in its way it w... more »as so good that they could not justly refuse it. The particular editor who took Yer~ rian's serial, after it had come back to the :-tuthor from the editors of the other 1eac1ing periodicals, was in fact moved mainly by the belief that the story would please the better sort of his readers. These, if they were not so numerous as the worse, he felt had now and then the right to have their pleasure Rtudied. It was a serious story, and it was somewhat l)itter, as Verrian himself was, after his struggle to reach the public with work which he knew meritecl recognition. But the world which does not like people to take them.~ selves t
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