Word: knopf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RARE BEN JONSON?Byron Steel?Knopf ($3). ". . . Ben tries in vain to spear an eel with the newly-invented fork, and in exasperation flings the fork across the room. With his large hand he dips up an eel from its greasy dish and conveys it drippingly to his mouth. He smacks his lips loudly, and washes the eel down with a deep tankard of Canary. . . . "Ben sleeps heavily, and awakes the next morning in a dripping sweat, but with brave notions. . . . He always writes under these conditions. His drunken, salty sweat seems to bring him inspiration." Thus Author Steele...
...Knopf published one, Macmillan two of her previous books...
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-BISHOP?Willa Gather?Knopf ($2.50). A large part of Miss Gather's pre-eminence as a novelist is due to her ability as a scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before...
UNKIND STAR-Nancy Hoyt- Knopf ($2.50). Two girls were born on the same night, under the same star, to life on erratic earth. Lilias Rabenstein was the daughter of an ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier...
BALZAC?Rene Benjamin?Knopf ($5). Fiction could be, has been defined as imaginary biography. Biography in its latest form could be defined as imaginary fiction. Into this definition fits the work of Andre Maurois, of his followers like Author Benjamin. They believe in making truth seem real by giving it the guise of fiction. Holding to an authentic outline, their method is to present what did happen as what might have happened, as part of the story...