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The Broad Highway

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The Broad Highway is a novel published in 1910 by English author Jeffery Farnol. Much of the novel is set in Sissinghurst, a small village South East England in Kent.

It was a best-seller, and the number one selling fiction book in the United States in 1911.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Hackett, Alice Payne. Seventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965, p. 107 (1967) (the lists for 1895-1912 in this volume are derived from the lists published in The Bookman (New York))
  2. ^ (February 19, 1911). THE BROAD HIGHWAY: A New Writer's Old-Fashioned Novel of the Early Nineteenth Century in England, The New York Times
  3. ^ Shelley, Henry C. (September 7, 1911). Jeffery Farnol and "The Broad Highway", The Independent (New York), p. 523-23