The Lamplighter
- 386 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
Maria Susanna Cummins fue una novelista estadounidense cuyas obras se caracterizaban por un estilo sentimental y retratos sensibles de personajes. Su novela debut alcanzó un éxito comercial sin precedentes, ganando reconocimiento como una narrativa original y natural que la hizo instantáneamente famosa. Si bien sus escritos posteriores no replicaron esta popularidad inicial, su habilidad para cautivar a los lectores con historias conmovedoras siguió siendo un aspecto distintivo de su voz literaria. Cummins también aportó su talento a periódicos populares de su época, ampliando su alcance literario.


Excerpt from Mabel Vaughan If it were not an Irish way of expressing myself, I should call prefaces, in general, the author's supplement to his work; either explaining his reasons for writing it, or giving some additional matter which could not be included, or else was forgotten in the book itself. Now as I am not the author of the following story, I cannot give her reasons for writing it, nor add to what she has already said; nor can I even give my opinion of it, as by so doing, I should have to reveal much of the plot in order to justify praise, or explain criticism.