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    Hugh Walpole: An Appreciation
    Hugh Walpole: An Appreciation
    Hugh Walpole: An Appreciation
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    Hugh Walpole: An Appreciation

    By Joseph Hergesheimer

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    "Hugh Walpole: An Appreciation" by Joseph Hergesheimer is a praising book about Hugh Walpole. He was an English novelist, and the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s but has been largely neglected since his death. Excerpt: "It is with an uncommon feeling of gratification that I am able to begin a paper on Hugh Walpole with the words, in their completest sense, an appreciation. But this rises from no greater fact than a personal difficulty in agreeing with the world at large about the most desirable elements for a novel. Here it is possible to say that Mr. Walpole possesses almost entirely the qualities which seem to me the base, the absolute foundation, of a beauty without which creative writing is empty. In him, to become as specific as possible, there is splendidly joined the consciousness of both the inner and outer worlds."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateJun 2, 2022
    ISBN8596547049593
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