Front matter
Reading edition
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By WILLIAM DE MORGAN
JOSEPH VANCE
An intensely human and humorous novel of life near London in the '50s. $1.75.
"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson' he can find the two books in this one."—The Independent.
"The first great English novel that has appeared in the 20th Century."—New York Times Review.
ALICE-FOR-SHORT
The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family. $1.75.
"If any writer of the present era is read half a century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan."—Boston Transcript.
"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in these rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Will be remembered as Dickens's novels are remembered."—Springfield Republican.
SOMEHOW GOOD
A lovable, humorous romance of modern England. $1.75.
"A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America. Absolutely masterly."—Dial.
"A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction."—Nation.
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAIN
WILLIAM DE MORGAN
AUTHOR OF "JOSEPH VANCE," "ALICE-FOR-SHORT" AND "SOMEHOW GOOD"
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1909
Copyright, 1909. BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Published November, 1909