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Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy
Title page to Vol. 1 of first U.K. edition (1866)
AuthorCharles Reade
IllustratorWilliam Small (Argosy serialization)
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherChapman & Hall (London); Ticknor and Fields (Boston)
Publication date
17 October 1866 (U.K.)[1]
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
PagesEnglish 1866 ed. 3 volumes: 302, 318, 328; U.S., 1 vol. 218 p.

Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy is an 1866 sensation novel by Charles Reade. A best-selling book in its day, it was thought by Reade to be his best novel, but critics and posterity have generally preferred The Cloister and the Hearth (1861).[2][3]

  1. ^ Charles Reade. Second-Hand Libel. To the Editor of the Globe (Letter from Reade to the Globe dated 22 October 1866).
  2. ^ Dianne Vitanza, Naturalism in Charles Reader's Experimental Novel, Griffith Gaunt, in Harrison, Kimberly & Richard Fantina, eds. Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Ohio State University Press, 2006.
  3. ^ James D. Hart. The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste, pp. 123–124 (story of publication) and 308 (listing Griffith Gaunt among "most widely read" books in America for the period; the only other listed for 1866 is Snow-Bound).

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