ABSTRACT

Ulysses is interestingly written; it grips. It is also long in comparison with the ordinary novel; and size, if it does not too much diminish quality, is impressive to us. But there are other novels which have achieved bulk together with a reasonably high level of quality; and there are many more still, even among works which are quite admittedly of lesser import and ephemeral, that grip the reader. That is the prime quality of the thriller, so that interestingness, as well as bulk, must be rejected as claims to originality or landmark quality.