Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct

Written by the best-selling 19th century author, Marie Corelli, this book is a collection of her essays about life as an author in the era, with colorful descriptions of her perspective on media and the reading audience, as seen as her own writing from this book: «The 'million' have long ago learned to read,—and are reading. The last is the most important fact, and one which those who seek to govern them would do well to remember. For their reading is of a most strange, mixed, and desultory order—and who can say what wondrous new notions and disturbing theories may not leap out sprite-like from the witch's cauldron of seething ideas round which they gather, watching the literary 'bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.'»