Jasper Milvain is a cheerful opportunist who means to rise by writing whatever sells. Edwin Reardon, a gifted novelist, is failing under poverty and a wife who expected success. Around them move the scholar Alfred Yule and his daughter Marian, toiling in the British Museum Reading Room on articles that may never pay.
An 1891 novel about authorship and money that still reads as uncomfortably current. Download the free EPUB.