Red Saunders: His Adventures West & EastPhillips, Henry Wallace
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Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East
Phillips, Henry Wallace
Fiction; Humorous stories
No one knows the lower side of London life so well as Arthur
Morrison, and this novel is his most masterly presentation of the
underworld with which he is so familiar. He has knit mean
characters, mean passions, mean stage setting into a powerful drama
of life that thrills as much because of the realism with which it
is drawn as because of the exciting scenes that come treading
helter-skelter upon each others heels. The rough sailors, the
thugs and criminals that frequent the "Hole in the Wall" Inn lose
none of their picturesqueness, nor any of their sordidness either,
from Mr. Morrison's treatment of them. He handles his material in
a way that suggests strongly the work of Dickens. As an intimate
picture of the lowest life in London, the novel is without an equal.
"It is a section of human life showing true lights and shadows, a
section cut by an exceedingly sharp blade. Some of the things that
Dickens is most praised for are evident in the work of Mr.
Morrison."--_Springfield Republican_.
"All of Mr. Morrison's work deserves the recognition it has
attained, but this is undoubtedly the most artistic, the most
virile, and the most heartrendingly true."--_Baltimore Sun_.
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By Arnold Bennett
Author of "The Great Babylon Hotel"
ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS
Probably no story of the year is so simply and yet so artistically
told as this one. It portrays the development of a sweet and
natural girl's character, amid a community of strict Wesleyan
Methodists in a Staffordshire town. How her upright nature
progresses with constant rebellions against the hypocrisy and cant
of the religionists, by whom she is surrounded, is brought out by
the author faithfully and with great delicacy of insight. Many
will love Anna, and not a few will find something in her to suggest
"Tess of the Durbervilles." The plot is extremely simple, but the
reader will find a surprise in the last chapters.
The English letter from W. L. Alden, in the _New York Times Review_
says:
"It will be promptly recognized by the critics whose opinion is
worth something _as the most artistic story of the year_."
Cloth. 12mo $1.50
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