Word: bover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a two-fold romance--that of the sea and that of Dan Bover and Ann Duane, the slim and lovely toast of New York. Bover's unquenchable love of the sea, never satisfied except when he strides the quarterdeck of his ship, and his tortuous pursuit of an elusive but understanding Ann, provide the twin plots underlying the whole structure of the novel...
...care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing called Bread ?and there are others?oh, yus? many old familiar faces will be with us again...
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