Verrian’s serial has finally been taken by a leading magazine, and among the letters it brings is one from a young woman claiming to be gravely ill and asking how the story will end. The appeal turns out to be a deception, and when Verrian later meets the people behind it at a winter house party, his wounded pride meets a more complicated truth.
A late, wry novella about literary fame and its readers by the dean of American realism. Download the free EPUB.