Word: madox
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ferene Molnar apparently takes issue with Ford Madox Ford in the latter's dictum that "New York Is Not America." Back in that dear Budapest after a whirlwind visit to Broadway and environs the playwright says that there is but one wonder in the world and that is the city of New York...
...LAST POST?Ford Madox Ford? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). The supreme ability of Author Ford, as displayed in all of his previous works, is that of implying the presence of profundities, tragedies, actions which he is presumably unable to state. His prolixity makes a dark and impenetrable screen around his stories; the only suspense is that of waiting for something to be said, something to happen. In The Last Post, as in the three preceding volumes (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up) of the series which it concludes, the story veers and sways, the characters...
...notable fact that three of the ablest living writers of English prose are women. Few are the men who can rival Willa Cather, Virginia Wolf, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts; their work possesses a calmness, a surety, a technical excellence which places them above the crowd and which has earned for them a certain claim to timelessness. Each succeeding volume from their pens is received as a permanent addition-to English fiction and not, as is the deserved fate of so many other novelists, as merely and annual product, to be read, discussed, and immediately forgotten...
...HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening...
This living ensemble of our country's literature presents every phase of modern American writing, and contains the latest and hitherto unpublished work of: Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passos, Ernest Heminway, Robert Hillyer, William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and others. This is the first year book of American literature and is highly recommended by Carl Van Doren, Elinor Wylie, Glenn Frank, Zona Gale and Hendrick Willem Van Loon...