Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the beginning been wary of the rise of her new neighbor on the inland sea, and has cast longing eyes at the recent acquisitions of Greece. France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost in Thrace and Asia Minor is the aim of both the Sultan's government on the Bosphorus and the Nationalists of Angora, who are capable of initiating no little trouble in the regions under Allied...
...times, it is true, the action drags, but there is nevertheless an underlying current of intensity that never fails to hold the attention. That this intensity can be successfully founded on so melodramatic a theme--the theme of a man driven to wicked love and murder by the jealous spirit of his wife's first husband--is due rather to the author's technique than to any special merit in the merit itself. It is the touches of realism and the excellent protrayal of the characters of these Castilian peasants, that sustain belief in the actuality of the story...
...Jealous of Rank...