# Multitude and Solitude Author: Masefield, John, 1878-1967 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58436 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Multitude+and+Solitude+Masefield&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Roger Naldrett, the writer, sat in his box with a friend, watching the second act of his tragedy. The first act had been received coldly; the cast was nervous, and the house, critical as a first-night audience always is, had begun to fidget. He watched his failure without much emotion. He had lived through his excitement in the days before the production; but the moment interested him, it was so unreal. The play was not like the play which he had watched so often in rehearsal. Unless some speech jarred upon him, as failing to help the action, he found that he could not judge of it in detail. In the manuscript, and in the rehearsals, he had tested it only in detail. Now he saw it as a whol... ## Chapters - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/multitude-and-solitude-58436/chapters/20/index.md)