Word: knopf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JAVA-JAVA-Byron Steel-Knopf...
...WOMAN WHO RODE AWAY-D. H. Lawrence-Knopf...
...KNIGHT COMES RIDING-John V. A. Weaver-Knopf...
FAREWELL TO YOUTH-Storm Jameson -Knopf ($2.50). Anyone who writes as acutely of women and their "new freedom" as does Author Jameson in Three Kingdoms, has no time to concern herself with men like the naive hero of the present volume. Nat Grimshaw, charming enough in his way, takes himself so seriously that his growing pains alternate dull with exasperating. Knowing nothing of women, Nat is tricked into marrying one of the worst; then goes off to war (the Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient...
...SACRIFICE-Fritz von Unruh-Knopf ($2.50). Son of a German general, Fritz von Unruh was commissioned in 1916 to write something that would improve regimental morale. When he submitted the manuscript of the present volume the General Staff declared him insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that...