Country life -- England -- Fiction; Short stories, English; Working class -- England -- Fiction
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Mr. Gladstone.=—‘_The Bondman_ is a work of which I recognise the
freshness, vigour, and sustained interest, no less than its integrity of
aim.’
=The Times.=—‘It is impossible to deny originality and rude power to
this saga, impossible not to admire its forceful directness, and the
colossal grandeur of its leading characters.’
=The Academy.=—‘The language of _The Bondman_ is full of nervous,
graphic, and poetical English; its interest never flags, and its
situations and descriptions are magnificent. It is a splendid novel.’
=The Speaker.=—‘This is the best book that Mr. Hall Caine has yet
written, and it reaches a level to which fiction very rarely attains....
We are, in fact so loth to let such good work be degraded by the title
of “novel” that we are almost tempted to consider its claim to rank as a
prose epic.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘Mr. Hall Caine has in this work placed himself beyond
the front rank of the novelists of the day. He has produced a story
which, for the ingenuity of its plot, for its literary excellence, for
its delineations of human passions, and for its intensely powerful
dramatic scenes, is distinctly ahead of all the fictional literature of
our time, and fit to rank with the most powerful fictional writing of
the past century.’
=The Athenæum.=—‘Crowded with incidents.’
=The Observer.=—‘Many of the descriptions are picturesque and
powerful.... As fine in their way as anything in modern literature.’
=The Liverpool Mercury.=—‘A story which will be read, not by his
contemporaries alone, but by later generations, so long as its chief
features—high emotion, deep passion, exquisite poetry, and true
pathos—have power to delight and to touch the heart.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘It is the product of a strenuous and sustained
imaginative effort far beyond the power of any every-day story-teller.’
=The Scots Observer.=—‘In none of his previous works has he approached
the splendour of idealism which flows through _The Bondman_.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=—‘A remarkable story, painted with vigour and
brilliant effect.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘A striking and highly dramatic piece of
fiction.’
=The Literary World.=—‘The book abounds in pages of great force and
beauty, and there is a touch of almost Homeric power in its massive and
grand simplicity.’
=The Liverpool Post.=—‘Graphic, dramatic, pathetic, heroic, full of
detail, crowded with incident and inspired by a noble purpose.’
=The Yorkshire Post.=—‘A book of lasting interest.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE SCAPEGOAT
BY HALL CAINE
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=Mr. Gladstone writes=:—‘I congratulate you upon _The Scapegoat_ as a
work of art, and especially upon the noble and skilfully drawn character
of Israel.’
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