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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MARION HARLAND (MRS. EDWARD P. TERHUNE) (United States, 1831) ALONE (1853) I planned to write a religious story that should be as interesting as a novel, said the author of this book? a living, ' human' narrative with a genuine religious undercurrent. I christened my brain-child, Alone. Suddenly, after a year's dreamful toil, I was appalled at my audacity and laid the manuscript aside. At twenty I rewrote it in an afterglow of inspiration. Tremblingly, I submitted it to my father's criticism. The power, vital charm, and daring originality of the story appealed so strongly to this, the first of many readers, that he had it published at his own expense. Fearing the odium that in those days attached to woman-novelists by her congeners, the author paraphrased her maiden name, Mary Hawes, into Marion Harland. The success of Alone bound the sobriquet to her for life. In the hands of an obscure Richmond publisher, and with but the clumsiest of advertising, this novel ran through seven editions in a year. In six years it reached a sale of 500,000 copies, and publishers north, east, and west vied with each other in offers for any other works that might come from the same pen. The book was translated into French and German, and was even more popular in England than in America. It founded a new school of fiction which has had hundreds of pupils. Letters from distinguished authors congratulating the bewildered girl upon her work rained in upon her in her quiet Richmond home. George D. Prentice, then in the prime of his career as poet and editor, became her warm admirer and fast friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to her once and again in terms of heartiest commendation. Longfellow said: Alone looks to me like a guide-board pointing to Fame. The book fulfilled its mission o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217334402 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217334407 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $24.02 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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