Leonard Merrick (1864-1939) was dubbed "The novelist's novelist." The New York Times wrote: "The often made assertion that there is nothing new under the sun is re futed once again by this new edition of the works of Leonard Merrick.
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Leonard Merrick (1864-1939) was a widely admired English novelist, whom J. M. Barrie called "the novelist's novelist." The Worldlings (1900) is a psychological investigation of a crime.
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Excerpt from The Man Who Was GoodHis psychological methods allure one by their seeming simplicity, quietly, with a delicate de liberation, he emphasises the outline of his char acters until with sudden swift decision, in the utterance of a phrase, the doing of some one of those small things that are life's real revelations, he shows you the soul of the man or woman whose externals he has so carefully portrayed. Half forgotten words and acts cr...
Excerpt from The Worldlings
The Worldlings has in it almost every element of Merrick's attractiveness as a tale teller, save, perhaps, his humour, here kept severely in restraint as a quality out of key in.
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Excerpt from The House of Lynch
But it is rather enriched by the irony which reminds us throughout that Conrad had a little too much money. If it could have been called Conrad in Quest Of His Life, in the sense Of his livelihood, the story might possibly have been more happy if less humorous. I am, myself, especially attracted by the adventures Of the impecunious poet in While Pam's Laughed, but Mr. Merrick is too much Of an artist to treat i...
Excerpt from The Man Who Was Good a Novel, Vol. 1 of 2
I should think, ' remarked the ensign, reaching for her skirt, you ought to know every line of the piece the times you've seen it! But, of course, you've nothing else to do.' no, ' Mrs. Carew assented 'it isn't lively sitting alone all the evening in lodgings. And it's more comfortable in the circle than behind. How you people manage to get dressed in some of the theatres puzzles me I loo...
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Excerpt from The Man Who Was Good, Vol. 2 of 2: A Novel
The development was less serene, but it was fortunately slow. Friendship does not trouble itself with questions, it debates neither its wisdom nor its return. It is only the warmer stage of interest that wants to know so much, and insists on the quid pro quo in feeling. When he advanced to the higher temperature Kincaid first tasted uneasiness.
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Excerpt from Whispers About Women
They have breakfasted, they have fed the spar rows around their chairs, and they have strolled under the green trees in the sunshine. She was singing then at a little café concert the most Oh scure. It is arranged, before they part, that in the evening he Shall go to applaud her.
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Excerpt from When Love Flies Out O the Window: With an Introd, by W. Robertson Nicoll
When Love Flies out o' the Window is one of Mr. Leonard Merrick's finest stories. This means that the book shows a singular mastery Of the narra tive style. Indeed as a narrator Mr. Merrick may well bear comparison with any of his contem poraries. He writes without effort or constraint, he wastes no words, he leads on to his conclusion without once turning a...
Excerpt from Violet Moses, Vol. 3 of 3ON the whole, it was to be regretted that Violet did not have children. When she had been married two years, she was as all women are who realize that in¿uences have conspired to spoil their lives, often petulant, and always secretly discontented, whereas, if she had been a mother, it would have given her a mission, and saved her from. Brooding over her mistake.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes ...
