AUTHORS AND THEIR WORK.
The latter-day novelist (observed "M.A.P.") produces mnny books very quickly, but often in length three or four of'them would go to one "Waverley," "Vanity Fair," or "Pickwick." For inutanoe, Mr Pembtrton averages two novels a year, brit his stories rarely exoeel 80,000 •words in length, while each of tibe classics mentioned runs into the neighbourhood of 400,000, and took about two years to -write; co that Mr Pemberton produces annually 100,000 words agprinet the, cay, 200,000 of Scott, Thackeray, Dickens. Granted that Mr Pemlberton's fascinating stortee are t«hort, even in theee days of tabloid literature, one may jtssert, without wishing to "be didactic, thnt the modern author—indeed, the modern man of whoever calling—gets through no more work than his forebears—if ac much.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11590, 22 May 1903, Page 5
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