The Greatest Novels of Charles Reade

Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Reade began his literary career as a dramatist, making his reputation by the two-act comedy, Masks and Faces. He made his name as a novelist and became famous because of his novel The Cloister and the Hearth which was based on a few lines by the medieval humanist Erasmus about the life of h...