The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade also publiCharles Readed three elaborate studies of character: Griffith Gaunt (1866) A Terrible Temptation (1871) A Simpleton (1873). As an author he always had an eye to stage effect in scene and situation as well as in dialogue. L.

Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.