The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure
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by Arnold Bennett
A GREAT MAN:
_A Comedy of Success._
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Here is a comparative study of the great and the merely successful--agentle satire on contemporary popular methods of judging human worth.At the start THE GREAT MAN knows quite well that he is not great.Later, confused by the clamor of applause, he deceives himself.
The story develops the rise of a modern writer--the get-famous-quickauthor who suddenly finds himself a "best-seller."