Word: macmillan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE-Joseph Hone-Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited...
PAMELA'S DAUGHTERS-Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham -Macmillan ($3.50) Study of the changing status of women as disclosed by analysis of heroines of fiction from Richardson and Fielding to Vina Delmar and Nalbro Bartley (The Premeditated Virgin). A spirited, unusual book...
PEARY-William Herbert Hobbs-Macmillan ($5). A frosty account of Admiral Peary's eight polar expeditions, in which the author's partisanship is concentrated on riddling Dr. Cook's rival claim as discoverer of the North Pole...
HONORABLE ESTATE-Vera Brittain-Macmillan...
...FEAR CAME-John T. Whitaker- Macmillan ($2.50). Troubled volume by a foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, whose reluctant disillusionment with the League of Nations was crystallized as an eyewitness of Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign...