Word: foxâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...
LADY INTO Fox???David Garnett? Knopf ($1.50). In fable form and prose style Mr. Garnett (son of Edward Garnett, the famous critic) relates the curious story of a Mr. Tebrick's wife who is turned into a fox. The poor man tries to treat the vixen as his wife. He plays cribbage.with her, reads to her from Clarissa Harlowe, eats delicate meals with her. Day after day she reverts more and more into a fox, and at last is killed by the hounds. Mr. Garnett might easily have been grotesque, sensational and melodramatic, or merely absurd. Instead, he has written...
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