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A 1906 novel from Mary Augusta Ward, an enormously successful British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She wrote 25 novels, concerned largely with religious, political, and social issues. “First, the reason why “Fenwick's Career” is the best thing Mrs. Ward has ever done; is it not because she has at last succeeded in drawing a real man, a task which nearly always proves too great for the female novelist? John Fenwick, whether we like him or not, is genuine flesh and blood; no mere puppet like Aldons Raeburn or Jacob Delafield, nor is he a revoltingly inhuman cad like the “hero” of “Eleanor,” who had nothing sincere about him. Fenwick is a moral coward, a shirker of the worst kind-witness the way ... Read more

ISBN: 1177577194

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...peculiar possession 24 Fentoick's Career of Westmoreland and Cumberland. Neither awful, nor yet trivial; neither too soft for dignity, nor too rugged for delight. The Westmoreland hills are the remains of an infinitely older world giants decayed, but of a great race and ancestry; they have the finish, the deli- cate or noble loveliness one might almost say the manner that comes of long and gentle companionship with those chief forces that make for natural beauty, with air and water, with temperate suns and too abun- dant rains. Beside them the Alps are inhuman; the Apennines mere forest-grown heaps mountains in the making; while all that Scotland gains from the easy en- veloping glory of its heather, Westmoreland, which is al- most heatherless, must owe to an infinitude of fine strokes, tints, curves, and groupings, to touches of magic and to lines of grace, yet never losing the wild energy of preci- pice and rock that belongs of right to a mountain world. To-day Langdale was in...