EM_ark13960t2z34nb4v_001
Author: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
Title: The City of Refuge
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1899
URL: archive.org/details/36050583.1776.emory.edu
Description and Synopsis:
The cover depicts an urban scene in which two men meet. These men wear business clothes with suits and ties.
Further Notes:
Walter Besant was a novelist who began publishing in the 1870s and became one of the most popular and prolific writers in England at the time. He is most remembered today for his efforts in social reform rather than for his fiction. In his early novels, Besant collaborated with James Rice, the editor of the journal Once a Week. Besant and Rice collaboratively wrote “triple-decker” novels together as well as novelettes (Machann). After Rice’s death, Besant continued writing novels and focused some of his efforts on portraying life among the poor in London’s East End. Many of Besant’s novels were best-sellers and they were featured among the better remembered best-sellers of Collins and Trollope. Besant’s other interests included copyright law and philanthropy. Although Besant is largely ignored by critics today, he made a significant impact on late-Victorian British society (Machann).
This new edition of the novel is made with pictorial boards, is large format or 17.5 cm (Sadleir 16).
Works Cited:
Machann, Clinton. “Sir Walter Besant.” British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880–1914: The Realist Tradition. Ed. William B. Thesing. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 135. Literature Resource Center. Web. 16 Jan. 2015. go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1200002450&v=2.1&...
Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Record Based on His Own Collection. Vol. 2. Cambridge: University Press, 1951.
EM_ark13960t2z34nb4v_001
Author: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
Title: The City of Refuge
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1899
URL: archive.org/details/36050583.1776.emory.edu
Description and Synopsis:
The cover depicts an urban scene in which two men meet. These men wear business clothes with suits and ties.
Further Notes:
Walter Besant was a novelist who began publishing in the 1870s and became one of the most popular and prolific writers in England at the time. He is most remembered today for his efforts in social reform rather than for his fiction. In his early novels, Besant collaborated with James Rice, the editor of the journal Once a Week. Besant and Rice collaboratively wrote “triple-decker” novels together as well as novelettes (Machann). After Rice’s death, Besant continued writing novels and focused some of his efforts on portraying life among the poor in London’s East End. Many of Besant’s novels were best-sellers and they were featured among the better remembered best-sellers of Collins and Trollope. Besant’s other interests included copyright law and philanthropy. Although Besant is largely ignored by critics today, he made a significant impact on late-Victorian British society (Machann).
This new edition of the novel is made with pictorial boards, is large format or 17.5 cm (Sadleir 16).
Works Cited:
Machann, Clinton. “Sir Walter Besant.” British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880–1914: The Realist Tradition. Ed. William B. Thesing. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 135. Literature Resource Center. Web. 16 Jan. 2015. go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1200002450&v=2.1&...
Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Record Based on His Own Collection. Vol. 2. Cambridge: University Press, 1951.