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has written that although the book may not have sold a million copies as has been claimed, it and many of Gunter's successive novels were indeed popular. In 1910, a profile of this "best seller of yesterday" described "its success as instantaneous as it was astonishing. Everywhere−in railway trains
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publisher and more publishers in New York, and met another round of rejections. After shelving the manuscript for a time, he read a current popular novel, and decided that although his book "might be rubbish, it was surely as good as this book that seemed to have taken the fancy of the public."
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in London on 16 May 1888 and closed on 23 June having played around 34 performances. Produced and directed by
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The plot revolves around the
European travels and adventures of Burton H. Barnes, including a romance "with an English belle" and "involvement in a Corsican vendetta concerning his future brother-in-law."
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and in the deck chairs of ocean liners−the paper covered yellow volume was to be seen." It also said "contemporary criticism was outspoken in its praise" of the book.
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the
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Mr. Barnes of New York: The
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