“A clever book but not by any means the great novel some have pronounced it. It is full of truths and half-truths and yet it is on the whole a very false book. It impresses me as having been written by a man who was incapable of feeling any lofty or inspiring passion or even any decent pleasing ordinary emotion. He therefore refused to believe that any other person could feel such … Real pleasure I found not in reading the book, but a certain titillating intellectual delight I did find.”<\/p>\n