Credentials:
Richard Rex retired from the University of Utah. He is the author of a collection of Chaucer essays titled The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Alice Muriel Williamson: The Secret History of American-English Author. He lives with his wife, Ines, on the Olympic Peninsula in Port Angeles, Washington.
This book discusses the eight novels by American expatriate author W. B. Trites, who, although highly praised by such contemporaries H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Maxwell, Max Beerbohm, L. P. Hartley, and Frank Harris, among others, remains curiously unknown today. His spare style, which pre-dated Hemingway’s by several decades, did not impress publishers accustomed to more expansive prose. Worse still, his prospects suffered from the forbidden social he dared to explore in a less open era, when publishers shied away from controversial topics.
Market:
Literature, Social Science, History, American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literatures, American Studies, W. B. Trites
Release Date:
February 15, 2023
ISBN:
9781680537277 Hardcover