From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
      
   > Sensational books, then as now, did well. I suspect that in a fairly   
   > remote mining town, one might find anything, whatever made its way   
   to   
   > town being accepted and welcomed. The Wide Wide World was a a   
   preachy   
   > domestic novel appealing, but it is sometimes credited with being   
   the   
   > first "bestseller".   
   >   
      
   > --   
   >                        Gerald Clough   
      
      
      
    I can believe that. I don't know how well it would have done in tough   
   mining towns but"The Wild Wide World" was, I think, the book that got   
   me interested in reading. Before I could read my elder sister would   
   read it to me and I would ask her to read certain sections over and   
   over again. It can be read online @   
   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/warner-susan/wide/wide.html   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)