Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stories. The Doll's House deals with a wonderful doll's house given to some moderately well-to-do children. They treasure it?show it off to all their school friends except the little Kelveys, the washerwoman's daughters. Then one day the Kelveys do see it?and are almost instantly scolded away by a proper grownup. But they have seen it. The children in The Doll's House live and breathe?Katherine Mansfield told a little about them but not nearly...
...Greatest Sin?" Giant" Hardy? The Doll Business...
...likely to starve. However, there are compromises to be made. A young novelist brought his manuscript to me last week. He was a boy I had met at a meeting of some down town settlement club. " What am I to do?" he asked. " I'm in the doll business. There's no excitement in that �and no one to whom I can talk! " What a gift it is to the world to find the sort of person to whom one can talk, who suddenly impresses one as being all-wise and trustworthy, whose eyes have looked on life...
...characters. Pegano and "Ma" Pegano the fat Italians who run a very questionable hotel are priceless; Mrs. Worth, an old English lady with a longing for Devon is excellent, while it will be very hard to forget the Reeces, Mrs. Reece unreal, brittle, and colorless as a wax doll, and Mr. Reece with his ever-lasting fear for the valves of Mrs. Reese's heart. "How is she?" "Badly, badly. They say the valves are closing. Closing up. Stenosis is the word the doctor uses, but long words don't make it any better...
...public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL?D. H. Law-rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll of her husband." In The Fox a young...