England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Short stories, English
"When we say that a plot displays Mrs. Wood's well-known skill in
construction, our readers will quite understand that their attention
will be enchained by it from the first page to the last."--THE WEEKLY
DISPATCH.
14.
WITHIN THE MAZE.
_ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH THOUSAND._
"The decided novelty and ingenuity of the plot of 'Within the Maze'
renders it, in our eyes, one of Mrs. Henry Wood's best novels. It
is excellently developed, and the interest hardly flags for a
moment."--THE GRAPHIC.
15.
ELSTER'S FOLLY.
_SIXTIETH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood fulfils all the requisites of a good novelist: she interests
people in her books, makes them anxious about the characters, and
furnishes an intricate and carefully woven plot."--THE MORNING POST.
16.
LADY ADELAIDE.
_SIXTIETH THOUSAND._
"One of Mrs. Henry Wood's best novels."--THE STAR.
"Mme. Henry Wood est fort célèbre en Angleterre, et ses romans--très
moraux et très bien écrits--sont dans toutes les mains et revivent dans
toutes les mémoires. _Le serment de lady Adelaïde_ donneront à nos
lecteurs une idée très suffisante du talent si élevé de mistress Henry
Wood."--L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE.
17.
OSWALD CRAY.
_SIXTIETH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood has certainly an art of novel-writing which no rival
possesses in the same degree and kind. It is not, we fancy, a common
experience for anyone to leave one of these novels unfinished."--THE
SPECTATOR.
18.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
+The Second Series.+
_THIRTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"The author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had
suspected among our living writers of fiction. It is not possible by
means of extracts to convey any adequate sense of the humour, the
pathos, the dramatic power and graphic description of this book."--THE
NONCONFORMIST.
"Mrs. Henry Wood has made a welcome addition to the list of the works of
contemporary fiction."--ATHENÆUM (_second notice_).
"These most exquisite studies."--NONCONFORMIST (_second notice_).
"The tales are delightful from their unaffected and sometimes pathetic
simplicity."--STANDARD (_second notice_).
"To write a short story really well is the most difficult part of the
art of fiction; and 'Johnny Ludlow' has succeeded in it in such a manner
that his--or rather her--art looks like nature, and is hardly less
surprising for its excellence than for the fertility of invention on
which it is founded."--GLOBE.
"Freshness of tone, briskness of movement, vigour, reality, humour,
pathos. It is safe to affirm that there is not a single story which will
not be read with pleasure by both sexes, of all ages."--ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS.
19.
ANNE HEREFORD.
_FORTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood's story, 'Anne Hereford,' is a favourable specimen of her
manner, the incidents are well planned, and the narrative is easy and
vigorous."--ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
20.
DENE HOLLOW.
_SIXTIETH THOUSAND._
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