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Arthur Machen's
Success
Born England 1863.
First book published 1881. Eighteen distinguished works (including a twelve-volume translation of Casanova) published from 1881 to 1922. For these forty-two years of labor he received the sum of £635—£15 and a few shillings a year! in spite of the testimonial of every English critic of note to his genius. At the age of sixty—one of the greatest writers English literature has produced—he was one of the least known.
Alfred A. Knopf published "The House of Souls" in a new edition, in 1922. With the Borzoi imprint, it was immediately successful; and so were "The Secret Glory," "The Hill of Dreams," "Far Off Things," "Things Near and Far," all recently published and already reprinted several times. The publication of further books by Machen will follow.
Machen's popular success and recognition has come late—but it has come with a rush, and it is overwhelming.
The New York Times says:
in a full-page review of Mr Machen's latest book (the second part of his autobiography)
THINGS NEAR AND FAR
"To him all that is beautiful builds walls of the celestial city in the mind of man; all that makes war against that beauty is unutterably evil. . . He can recreate London or Touraine with a phrase or give us the play of sunlight on the brim of an old cup filled with clear wine. All phases of life interest him, since he has entered into more of them that most men. We observe the same quality in Swift, the most virulent of satirists, and fundamentally the tenderest of humanitarians. His style approaches the gift of music. . . Machen is of that small group of Coleridge, De Quincy, Sir Thomas Browne, Poe and Mallory—a group where each is a master." $2.00 net
STOCK UP ON THE ABOVE AND THESE BOOKS BY ARTHUR MACHEN
THE HOUSE OF SOULS Four stories, "moved by a sense of spirits terrible and beautiful. With The Hill of Dreams, his best work."—Carl Van Vechten. $2.50 net THE SECRET GLORY The strange story of an English school boy. $2.50 net |
FAR-OFF THINGS Machen's autobiography commenced. "Chatty, mystical, wayward, and very interesting indeed."
—London letter, Chicago Evening Post
THE HILL OF DREAMS This novel, relating the strange and mystic adventures of a boy on the quest of artistry, is conceded to be Machen's masterpiece. $2.50 net |
In Canada all Borzoi Books can be obtained from The Macmillan Co. of Canada, Ltd., Toronto