I thought of this when I re-read The Magnificent Ambersons, a nearly 100 - year - old novel by Booth Tarkington that won him the first of two Pulitzer prizes for fiction, though you may know it more from the 1942 film adaptation directed by Orson Welles. (firstthings.com)
It would be a plodding old novel that simply stated these people were here. (bookbrowse.com)
But one of the trade - offs is that you have to continue to write things people want to buy, because it doesn't take long for sales on older novels to drop off. (lindsayburoker.com)