The Tidal Wave

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ivan Aivazovsky, Carl Frederik Sørensen and John Constable. Ethel Dell in short compass: a Cornish fishing village and a wave; men who are brutes and then are not; women who choose them anyway. Her first novel was rejected eight times and then ran through thirty editions — the critics were merciless and the public did not care, and Q. D. Leavis ...