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earliest works of fiction produced in America 

 which have a definite, permanent place in the 

 history of literature. Deficient, except in one 

 instance, in the power of character drawing, 

 Cooper knew how to tell a story, and he found 

 and has kept a large audience for his tales of 

 Indians and of the sea. The writings of Wash- 

 ington Irving differ widely from those of 

 Cooper, being of the quiet sort which depends 

 for its interest not on wild adventures but on 

 the faithfulness of its pictures of simple life. 

 He was more successful in his short stories than 

 in his long novels, and this form of fiction has 

 been since his time very popular in America. 

 One of the greatest masters of the short story 

 who ever lived is Edgar Allan Poe, whose tales 

 of horror are as perfect in their way as are his 

 analytical stories. Following Poe is Hawthorne, 

 the supreme fiction writer of America. His 

 books are not novels in the exact sense he 

 himself called them romances; but they are 

 romances of a particular kind which he brought 

 to a point of perfection. 



Later writers of fiction in America have been 

 very numerous, some of them producing works 

 which have ranked high at home and abroad; 

 scores and even hundreds of others simply swell- 

 ing the output of the presses with works which 

 have no literary merit and which will not be 

 remembered after their own day. Of such 

 works, many meet with no success whatever; 

 the ordinarily successful attain a sale of from 

 five to ten thousand, while a few favored ones, 

 by no means always the best, reach and go 

 beyond the hundred thousand mark. David 

 Harum, written by a banker, ill and dying, and 

 published in 1898, had a sale of nearly a million 

 copies. 



Canada was until late in the nineteenth cen- 

 tury behind the rest of the English-speaking 

 world in the production of novels, but to-day 

 many of its novelists rank among the best of 

 contemporary fiction writers. At the head of 

 the list stands Sir Gilbert Parker, and the next 

 in popular esteem is probably Charles William 

 Gordon, better known as Ralph Connor. 



The excessive output of novels is to be dep- 

 recated because the reading of them creates a 

 distaste not only for worthier and more serious 

 forms of literature, but for the classic in fic- 

 tion. A.MC c. 



Related Subject*. The following general arti- 

 cles may be referred to by the reader : 

 American Literature Fiction 

 Canadian Literature French Literature 

 Classics German Literature 



English Literature Romance 



Much material of interest will be found, also, in 

 the following biographies of novelists : 



Abbott, Jacob 

 Alcott, Louisa May 

 Alden, Isabella 



McDonald 



Aldrich, Thomas Bailey 

 Alger, Horatio 

 Allen, Charles Grant B. 

 Allen, James Lane 

 Andersen, Hans 



Christian 



Annunzio, Gabrielle d' 

 Atherton, Gertrude 

 Austen, Jane 

 Bacheller, Irving 

 Bacon, Josephine Dodge 



Daskam 



Balzac, Honorfi de 

 Barbour, Ralph Henry 

 Barr, Amelia 

 Barr, Robert 

 Barrie, Sir James 



Matthew 

 Bates, Arlo 

 Beach, Rex 

 Bennett, Arnold 

 Besant, Sir Walter 

 Bjornson, Bjornstjerne 

 Blackmore, Richard 



Doddridge 

 Boccaccio, Giovanni 

 Bourget, Paul 

 Brady, Cyrus Townsend 

 Bronte, Charlotte 

 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 



George Earle 

 Bunyan, John 

 Burnett, Frances Eliza 



Hodgson 



Cable, George Wash- 

 ington 

 Caine, [Thomas Henry] 



Hall 

 Cervantes Saavedra, 



Miguel de 

 Chambers, Robert 

 Chauveau, Pierre J. O. 

 Chester, George 



Randolph 

 Churchill, Winston 

 Clemens, Samuel 



Langhorne 

 Collins, [William] 



Wilkie 



Cooper, James Fenimore 

 Corelli, Marie 

 Cotes, Sara Jeannette 



Duncan 



Craigie, Pearl Richards 

 Craik, Dinah Maria 



Mulock 



Crane, Stephen 

 Crawford, Francis 



Marion 



Daudet, Alphonse 

 Davis, subhead Richard 



Harding Davis 

 Defoe, Daniel 

 DeMille, James 



Dickens, Charles 

 Disraeli, Earl of 



Beaconsfleld 

 Dixon, Thomas J. 

 Dodgson, Charles 



Lutwidge 

 Doyle, Sir Arthur 



Conan 

 1 Mimas 

 Du Maurier, George 



Louis 



Duncan, Norman 

 Ebers, Georg Moritz 

 Edwards, Harry 



Stillwell 



Eggleston, Edward 

 Fielding, Henry 

 Foote, Mary Hallock 

 Ford, Paul Leicester 

 Fox, John, Jr. 

 Freeman, Mary E. 



Wilkins 

 French, Alice 

 Galsworthy, John 

 Garland, Hamlin 

 Gaskell, Elizabeth 



Cleghorn 

 Gaspe, Philippe Aubert 



de 



Gerin-Lajoie, Antoine 

 Glyn, Elinor 

 Goldsmith, Oliver 

 Gordon, Charles William 

 Gorky, Maxim 

 Gutzkow, Karl Ferdi- 

 nand 

 Haggard, Sir Henry 



Rider 



Halvy, Ludovic 

 Haliburton, Thomas C. 

 Hardy, Thomas 

 Harraden, Beatrice 

 Harris, Joel Chandler 

 Harte, [Francis] Bret 

 Hawkins, Anthony Hope 

 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 

 Hearn, Lafcadio 

 Henty, George Alfred 

 Herrick, Robert 



[Welch] 



Hewlett, Maurice Henry 

 Heyse, Paul 

 Hichens, Robert 

 Holland, Josiah Gilbert 

 Holmes, Oliver Wendell 

 Howells, William Dean 

 Hughes, Thomas 

 Hugo, Victor Marie 

 Jackson, Helen Fisko 



Hunt 



James, Henry 

 Jerome, Jerome Klapka 

 Johnston, Mary 

 Jokai, Maurus 

 Kingsley, Charles 

 Kipling, Rudyard 

 Kirby, William 

 LagerlSf, Selma 



