Word: boni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upton Sinclair - A. & C. Boni...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...
...GUGGENHEIM-Dorothy Disney and Milton Mackaye-A. & C. Boni...
...TRIUMPH OP YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Bishop Philip Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands...
MARCO MILLIONS-Eugene Neill-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Merchant Polo, mediaeval babbitt; published before produced...