The Wild Olive by Basil King, published 1910."A solitary horseman was wending his way across "the plain." Thus, in effect, the clever author of The Wild Olive begins his story. True, the horseman chances to be on foot, and the plain is a hillside opening in the forest that clothes the foothills of the Adirondacks. Otherwise it is the time-honoured formula, which the ingenuity of countless novelists has failed to improve. It is the apparition of the...
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