Word: knopf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COUNTERFEITERS-Andre Gide -Alfred A. Knopf ($3). A chief character is the novelist. He describes how he is planning his book; observing characters; taking notes. The book is a story of this planning, broken into bits of narrative, snatches of dialog, description, with constant quotations from the author's own diary in which he comments on the theory of the novel and the progress of his own. M. Gide is French; his book set in Paris, Switzerland, etc., etc. The book has no story in the accepted sense; is often described by the character-novelist as "a slice...
...GEORGE BELLOWS, HIS LITHOGRAPHS ? Knopf...
...PREJUDICES (Sixth Series) ? H. L. Mencken? Knopf...
...LAND OF THE PILGRIM'S PRIDE?George Jean Nathan?Knopf...
KITTY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2). Sex, sentimentality, simplicity-the formula upon which Author Deeping constructed his first best seller Sorrel and Son, his second best seller Doomsday, is, in this opus, not so much complicated by the more difficult factors of good storytelling and sound characterization. In the story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve...