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...muckraking novel?written rather to expose an abuse than to describe actual men and women in fiction???we have always with us. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) is a good sample of its kind?and good of its kind. But the kind is not lasting. And, in general, our accredited novelists seem to prefer to deal, if not with brokers, artists and young collegians, at least with the Babbitts and sub-Babbitts of the middle class...
...Significance. Few average readers will be able to summon up any sort of a yawn over North of 36, It has the usual appurtenances of "Western" fiction???but it has something more. The man who wrote it knew the country and people he wrote about as most "Western" writers do not;?conscientiousness, craftmanship and sincerity are evident throughout the novel. What faults there are are faults neither of intention nor laziness?you have the constant feeling that here is a book written as well as the particular author concerned could write...
...occurs in a hermetically sealed room sans exits or entrances? innumerable books about small Middle Western towns?wondering why there should be so many books about small Middle Western towns?Babbitt?calling other people babbitts? being called a babbitt? The Bright Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction???goods books? books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand?the first half of The Judge?Lady into Fox?Through the Wheat?A Pocketful of Poses? Beasts, Men and Gods?letters by Franklin K. Lane?by Walter Hines Page?fat, interesting volumes and no time to read them...
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