Word: sequel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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OUTWARD BOUND-Creepily thrilling and adequately played drama which makes the hereafter a Swedenborgian sequel to life...
Victor Margueritte, French author: "The Paris boulevards were flooded with a 50,000-copy first edition of The Companion, a sequel I wrote to The Bachelor Girl (La Gargonne), the feminist novel for which I was expelled from the Legion of Honor. In a ' fighting preface' to The Companion I declared that my new heroine, Annik, will arouse more wrath than my previous one, Monique, as she goes further, attaining spiritual emancipation. Monique stopped halfway and got married...
...Story* Sequels seem to be out of favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume...
...purloin an important dye formula from an old friend of the Rover family. From the time when an aeroplane (not driven by a Rover or there would have been no accident) crashes into a lake in the first chapter till the last (which holds promise of yet another sequel, The Rover Boys Shipwrecked or A Thrilling Hunt for Pirate's Gold), all is frolic, action and fun. True sons of their parents, these-not a complex or a suppressed desire in a barrel of them. "And here, while the Rover boys and their chums are getting ready to give...
...strange event of Royalists and Socialists meeting in the same inn had an unfortunate sequel when the two parties inadvertently left the building at the same time. The monarchists, armed with whips and revolvers, slashed and fired at the laborites, killing one and wounding two others. The assailants fled before the arrival of the police...