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Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist, best known for the Cloister and the Hearth, Foul Play, Put Yourself in HIs Place, Terrible Temptation, Christie Johnstone, Never Too Late to Mend and White Lies. Charles Reade's strong, healthy air of honest and high purpose breathes through nearly all the stories. An utter absence of cant, affectation, and sham distinguishes them. A surprising variety of descriptive power, at once bold, broad, and realistic is one of their great merits. Mr. Reade can describe a sea-fight, a storm, the forging of a horseshoe, the ravages of an inundation, the trimming of a lady's dress, the tuning of a piano, with equal accuracy and apparent zest. . . . Indeed, Mr. Reade wants no quality which is necessary to make a powerful story-teller, while he is distinguished from all mere story-tellers by the fact that he has some great social object to serve in nearly everything he undertakes to detail. He is a magnificent specimen of the 19th century correspondent, endowed with the additional and unique gift of a faculty for throwing his report into the form of a thrilling story. Mr. Reade is an unsurpassed English novelists.
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