Word: moneyâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when it insists that the book is about money???but more accurately it is about greed?greed for money and for other things as well. Wassermann's world is diseased by greed for sensation, for life, for security...