A Terrible Temptation

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. FIRST AMER. EDITION. Original full green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Light wear. Previous owner's name at the top of the title page. Not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Charles Reade (8 June 1814 -- 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. George Orwell wrote of Reade "Reade was a man of what one might call penny-encyclopaedic learning. He possessed vast stocks of disconnected information which a lively narrative gift allowed him to cram into books which would at any rate pass as novels. If you have the sort of mind that takes a pleasure in dates, lists, catalogues, concrete details, descriptions of processes, junk-shop windows and back numbers of the Exchange and Mart, the sort of mind that likes knowing exactly how a medieval catapult worked or just what objects a prison cell of the eighteen-forties contained, then you can hardly help but to enjoy Reade.". First American Edition. Full Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.