Framed by a playful preface in which Robinson Crusoe receives a shipload of books on his island, Overton’s essays introduce the authors filling bookshops in the early 1920s. Chapters treat Philip Gibbs, the detective writer Melville Davisson Post, Jeffery Farnol, E. Phillips Oppenheim, the young Aldous Huxley, the psychologist G. Stanley Hall and current fashions in fiction.
A lively snapshot of what readers were enjoying a century ago, useful to anyone curious about forgotten bestsellers. Download the free EPUB.