Novel 353: Sir Walter Besant and James Rice, Ready-Money Mortiboy (1872)
The son of a miserly father, supposed dead, returns unexpectedly.
Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) wrote some ten novels with James Rice (1844-1882) and some thirty more on his own. This was his first.
“A clever book . . . which no grown man who has any experience of life can read without being the better for it”; the author makes characters “say in his pages just what they say in every day real life.” Athenaeum, July 13, 1872
“The story is daring and clever, and is well worth reading.” British Quarterly, July, 1873
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