Word: lovel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heaven or the Other Place. As a writer, he declined in the last years of his life. In The Virginians, Lovel the Widower and Philip he merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...