The complete online text of The Web of Life by Robert Herrick (novelist).

Robert Herrick was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a genteelly impoverished family that traced its New England lineage back to 1636. Schooled locally, he also graduated from Harvard, where he benefited from a recent interest in encouraging creative...

Although he is largely forgotten today, Robert Herrick was regarded in the decade before World War I as an important inheritor of the realist tradition and a controversial critic of American materialism. Herrick was one of a number of middle-class, gener...

Herrick's three collections of short stories written over a thirty-year period from 1895 to 1925 do not alter the reputation established for him by his seventeen novels and five novellas. He is considered a brilliant, minor realist who fused Theodore Dre...

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