His novels had created a momentum in the contemporary readers.
The hope is that the book will resonate with contemporary readers.
He also included far more personal and human details than those to which contemporary readers were accustomed.
It doesn't matter; he believes that contemporary readers have no memory of what they've read before.
The contemporary reader has all the advantage of ten years' experience since this story was imagined.
It's not only contemporary readers who have been put off by this trait.
Anna's advice was most likely easily understood by the contemporary readers.
This can make the book more demanding for contemporary readers.
Clearly contemporary readers who knew both books considered them connected.
So I sought a way to bring them to the attention of contemporary readers.