ABSTRACT
The author may write merely for amusement or commercial purposes. In these cases it is true the author's personality may not be in his work any more than an editorial writer's real opinions are in the editorial which he writes in accordance with the policy of his paper. An author again may purposely conceal himself, but the key once discovered reveals him. Deliberate and continuous concealment by the author of his personality can often be detected. The author may say that book does not represent his own life. It does in that it shows his reaction to seeing life of this kind lived by others; it means that he has been struck by the cruelty or injuctice of it, and that unconsciously he reflected that he too might but for a chance throw of the dice of fate be in the same position.
