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Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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1857
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An aspiring novelist named Ralph imagines a future in which visitors preserve the house where he wrote his famous book. Thomas Bailey Aldrich sets this grand ambition beside the blunt responses of Mrs. Muggins and the literary opinions of Ralph's friend Barescythe, a newspaper critic. The result is a comic frame for a novel presented chapter by chapter, with the critic's running remarks exposing the young writer's vanity and uncertain talent.

Inside that frame, the story moves from a house by the sea to offices, publishers and a prison. Daisy Snarle and a necklace figure in its sentimental drama, while the middle excerpt follows Mortimer Walters as he breaks with his domineering employer, Mr. Flint.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly for many years and published writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt there. His semi-autobiographical book "The Story of a Bad Boy" gave rise to the bad boy's book subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature.

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First published
1857
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
103
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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