BOOKS BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN
Reading edition
ALICE-FOR-SHORT
The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family, with some decidedly dramatic happenings.
"'Joseph Vance' was far and away the best novel of the year, and of many years.... Mr. De Morgan's second novel ... proves to be no less remarkable, and equally productive of almost unalloyed delight.... The reader ... is hereby warned that if he skims 'Alice-for-Short' it will be to his own serious loss.... A remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest."—Dial.
"Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half 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 those rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Page by page the new book is as rich, piquant and interesting as its predecessor.... Everywhere are wit, learning and scholarship ... the true creative imagination.... Will be remembered as Dicken's novels are remembered."—Springfield Republican.
JOSEPH VANCE
A novel of life near London in the 50's.
"The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."—LEWIS MELVILLE in New York Times Saturday Review.
"No novel since Thackeray's own will give you so much honest comfort and delight."—World's Work.
"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson' he can find the two books in this one."—The Independent.
"A perfect piece of writing."—New York Tribune.