Word: godden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ISLE OF THORNS?Sheila Kaye-Smith?Dutton ($2.00). Disappointment always follows the revival of a well-known author's early works. Such is the case here, for only in snatches do we glimpse the vivid characterization, the excellent narrative ability so clearly shown in Joanna Godden and The End of the House of Alard. It is a bitter struggle for Raphael, widow- er, father, country clerk, when he finds himself in the throes, of an utterly unreasonable love for an utterly unreasonable young lady, turned gypsy, from London. It is likewise a struggle for the reader...
...HOUSE OF ALARD- Sheila Kaye-Smith-Dutton ($2.00). Here is another lengthy, careful study of the decay of an English county family by the author of Joanna Godden. The Alards were land-poor and stubborn with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...
Kaye-Smith: Joanna Godden...