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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's great and permanent autobiographies, in a smaller format and at less than half price, is a literary event of first importance. The Education of Henry Adams is one of the most entrancing books of the century, it is a veritable treasure house of joy to the reader, it has gone through twenty-five printings and this new and cheaper edition should find an even wider audience...
...Greene. A practically complete edition of Plato is offered in this judicious selection from all his work in the famous Jowett Translation. By its careful weaving together, the book offers a complete presentation of the human philosophy of Plato--of all philosophers the most sympathetic to the general reader...
This edition of the Rubaiyat, brought out by the Shakespeare Head Press, will please the most exacting reader. The format is the product of the greatest care in arrangement and composition, while the decorations have been drawn especially for the text. As an example of the printer's art, it will satisfy all who wish to see one of the great classics issued in a form which does it justice...
...admirable blending of the supernatural and picturesque, the touch of fantasy, and the vigor of its action, place this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...
...further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean to the wheezing and blaring of an antique accordion, and his ultimate escape from the English in a stolen officer's uniform would tax a reader's credulity if they were not already matters of record...