Word: novels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is clipped from the Boston Traveller of April 8: "Who is 'Barrett Wendell' "? people are asking, after reading "The Duchess Amelia," just published by Messrs. Osgood and Co. Miss Kate Field, who read this novel from advance proof sheets, and expressed great interest in it, surmises that "Barrett Wendell" is Marion Crawford, who has amused himself by bringing out a novel under a nom de plume...
...Duchess Emilia," Mr. Wendell has given us a book which is strangely at odds with the tendency of novel writing at the present time. Don Quixote, armed for the fray, would present no stranger figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means...
GERMAN DUELLING.This was the novel feature of the meeting. When Fogg had made his last hitch and kick and the horizontal bar contest was still in progress. Reynolds, C. S., and Lempe, M. S., the two principals, and their seconds, Furness '88, and Sternburgh, '87, came out with their long dueling swords. The principals were protected with head masks and leather guards on their right arms. The seconds had on caps of different German university student corps, and wore little aprons of the same color as their cap bands. Three rounds of a minute each were fought. Each time...
Miss Austen. Any novel...
Scott. One novel and one poem...