Word: knopf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PEOPLE ROUND THE CORNER?Thyra Samter Winslow?Knopf ($2.50). Mrs. Winslow puts together a good deal of formula fiction for the mass magazines. Most self-supporting writing women in Manhattan do the like. They have to. But Mrs. Winslow writes "for herself" as well, a less common practice. The better magazines await this work eagerly. Perhaps soon she will be free to do no other kind. If so, U. S. literature will benefit...
...LOVELY SHIP-Storm Jameson-Knopf...
...quite an unmodern thing to do early in this century when everybody was proud of being in haste and having no time for long tales, only for the "short" story. But he made his public sit down and read what he had to say. "Buddenbrooks, Decline of a Family." Knopf, New York, was the title of the book. He covered the whole nineteenth century with the history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly in a comical vein of the things of life, of births, christenings, weddings, and bitter deaths". The first...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...
...first to follow "Royal Highness," which had a lighter air and more elegance than any of Mann's previous works. It reflected the happy time of courtship and marriage. Then dramatic sketches and short stories, and then an exception to the positive turn of mind; "Death in Venice." Knopf, New York...