''A Terrible Temptation: A Story of the Day'' is an 1871

sensation novel The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s.I. Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995) p. 844 Its literary forebears i ...

Charles Reade Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for '' The Cloister and the Hearth''. Life Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at leas ...

. It first appeared serially in ''

Cassell's Magazine ''Cassell's Magazine'' is a British magazine that was published monthly from 1897 to 1912. It was the successor to ''Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper'', (1853–1867) becoming ''Cassell's Family Magazine'' in 1874, ''Cassell's Magazine'' in 1897 ...

'' in England from March 4 to August 26, 1871.(17 August 1871)
A Terrible Temptation (review)
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The Nation ''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper tha ...

'', p. 107-08.At the Circulating Library Periodical Information: Cassell's Magazine
Victorianresearch.com, Retrieved 12 March 2021 Similar to 1866's ''

Griffith Gaunt ''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 ...

'', the novel received negative reviews in the English press due to its content, which included extramartial relations and a courtesan, but this also helped increase sales of Reade's works in America. ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

'' told parents to keep the book away from their daughters. Reade responded by noting that stories in their paper inspired many of his works, and it was hypocritical to complain about the same type of content they use to sell papers. In subsequent correspondence, Reade noted that he had already sold over 370,000 copies of the novel in the United States, much larger than the ''Times'' circulation.Fantina, Richard
Victorian Sensational Fiction: The Daring Work of Charles Reade
p. 32 (2010) A 2013 review calls the book "a sensation novel which makes ''

Lady Audley's Secret ''Lady Audley's Secret'' is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. John Sutherland. "Lady Audley's Secret" in ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', 1989. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. C ...

'' look uneventful and '' The Woman in White'' slow-moving."Austin, Finola (4 August 2013)
Review: A Terrible Temptation, Charles Reade (1871)
''The Secret Victorianist''

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Terrible Temptation''
full text, 1871 U.S. Harper & Bros. edition, Google Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Terrible Temptation, A 1871 British novels Victorian novels Novels by Charles Reade