The narrator has known Derrick Vaughan since their nursery days and sets down, informally, how his friend’s fortunes developed. Through years of rejection, family burdens and quiet self-sacrifice, Derrick works at his novel, and the arrival of his first proofs at their shared lodgings is a moment both young men never forget.
A short, warm-hearted novel about the writing life from a popular late-Victorian author. Download the free EPUB.