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Rejection letters

I'm sorry, Mr Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. San Francisco Examiner

I wouldn't touch this with a barge-pole. Rejection of Samuel Beckett's Dream of fair-to-middling women

I can't see why a chap should need thirty pages to describe how he turns over in bed before going to sleep. Rejection of Marcel Proust's Du coté de chez Swann

Reviews

I finished Ulysses and think it is a misfire. Virginia Woolf on Joyce.

Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. Le Figaro on Madame Bovary

It is a vulgar and barbarous drama. Voltaire on Shakespeare's Hamlet

... wild, confused, disjointed and improbable. The Examiner on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights