[Thackeray by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThackeray CHAPTER I 33/125
"They have only bought so many of my new book." "Have you seen the abuse of my last number ?" "What am I to turn my hand to? They are getting tired of my novels." "They don't read it," he said to me of _Esmond_.
"So you don't mean to publish my work ?" he said once to a publisher in an open company.
Other men keep their little troubles to themselves.
I have heard even of authors who have declared how all the publishers were running after their books; I have heard some discourse freely of their fourth and fifth editions; I have known an author to boast of his thousands sold in this country, and his tens of thousands in America; but I never heard anyone else declare that no one would read his _chef-d'oeuvre_, and that the world was becoming tired of him.
It was he who said, when he was fifty, that a man past fifty should never write a novel. And yet, as I have said, he was from an early age fully conscious of his own ability.
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