Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author with the largest number of titles on the list is a onetime White House occupant, Theodore Roosevelt. His four volumes: Autobiography, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Letters to his Children. Robert Louis Stevenson also is four times included. Mark Twain and Francis Parkman will have three volumes each on the White House shelves...
...chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for April in preference to such books as Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Great Meadow (TIME, March 3).* Book-of-the-Month selectors defend their choice by comparing Gallows' Orchard to the work of the late great Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy...
Written in a style more reminiscent of Author Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Lorna Doone) or of Bonn Byrne, Gallows' Orchard yet has in it something of the fateful quality of Hardy, something of the imminence of Hawthorne, something of the easy narrative of Stevenson...