Word: knopf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew Mr. Mencken away from journalism into the naughty magazine game, but Mr. Mencken it was who, ill-satisfied with preciosity, found a publisher for a new magazine in which the emphasis on fiction was to be reduced, the sociological and intellectual emphases amplified. Mr. Mencken approached Alfred A. Knopf, a facile gentleman who at 32 had opened a whole new field for U. S. book publishers by importing the best European literature and selling it in de luxe print and jackets for fancy prices. Publisher Knopf was quick to see that any large group of people who were being...
...DARK GENTLEMAN-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Setting her eye about at the level of the kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish...
DOOMSDAY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England...
STORE OF LADIES-Louis Golding -Knopf ($2.50). Bulls, despite the talk, do not frequent china shops. But boxers do, sometimes, invade polite society. Wordy but facile Author Golding is here engaged, and most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with...
...FIELD OF MUSTARD-A. E. Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...