Word: novels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tomlinson has come to the United States chiefly through the efforts of his publishers, who have just put out his first novel. "Galleons Reach." This book has enjoyed considerable fame and has put Tomlinson in the opinion of many in the same position that Joseph Conrad held when his novel "Chance" was published after 20 years of writing...
...importance of the occasion, when one considers what might reasonably be expected from the author of "Where the Blue Begins," "Thunder on the Left," or even "The Romany Stain." "Pleased to Meet You" is the name of the play, an dit came out first as a short novel in Harper's during the past summer. The novelette was subtly satirical and financially fantistic. People said of it, as they say of anything of Morley's which they do not clearly understand. "What delightful fantasy?" Furthermore when the Morley sense of humor stopped operating efficiently, the characters instead of being wise...
...Tomlinson, whose recent novel "Galleons Reach" has placed him in much the same position of Conrad in 1915 when his "Chance" appeared, will speak at the Union on Friday evening, at 8 o'clock in the Living Room. Tomlinson is coming to the Union chiefly through the efforts of the Harvard English Department...
...book is not a novel, but simply a story of the expedition. Between 1910 and the appearance of "Galleons Reach" Tomlinson wrote "Old Junk", "London River", "Waiting for Daylight", "Under the Red Ensign", and "Gifts of Fortune". Many of these were written Dicken's wise,--as sketches which Tomlinson prepared as a journalist for weekly publication. Such is the reputed origin of "Old Junk" and "Waiting for Daylight...
...Galleons Reach" is Tomlinson's first attempt at a novel. Published in England by William Heineman and in the United States by Harpers, it brought him immediate fame. He has been termed the English Conrad, but the metaphore refers more to the nature of the coming of his fame and his subject matter than to any imitative likeness of Conrad's style or method of treatment. The subject matter of the two men is the same, but the two styles of writing are essentally different...