Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

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.