The Little Review, December 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 9)Various
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The Little Review, December 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 9)
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals
NEVER TOLD TALES. Presents in the form of fiction, in language
which is simplicity itself, the disastrous results of sexual
ignorance. The book is epoch-making; it has reached the ninth
edition. It should be read by everyone, physician and layman,
especially those contemplating marriage. Cloth. Send $1.10.
PAN’S GARDEN. By Algernon Blackwood. Send $1.60.
THE CROCK OF GOLD. By James Stephens. Send $1.60.
THE INVISIBLE EVENT. By J. D. Beresford. Jacob Stahl, writer and
weakling, splendidly finds himself in the love of a superb woman.
Send $1.45. The Jacob Stahl trilogy: “The Early History of Jacob
Stahl,” “A Candidate for Truth,” “The Invisible Event.” Three
volumes, boxed. Send $2.75.
OSCAR WILDE’S WORKS. Ravenna edition. Red limp leather. Sold
separately. The books are: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord
Arthur Saville’s Crime, and the Portrait of Mr. W. H., The
Duchess of Padua, Poems (including “The Sphinx,” “The Ballad of
Reading Gaol,” and Uncollected Pieces), Lady Windermere’s Fan, A
Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being
Earnest, A House of Pomegranates, Intentions, De Profundis and
Prison Letters, Essays (“Historical Criticism,” “English
Renaissance,” “London Models,” “Poems in Prose”), Salome, La
Sainte Courtisane. Send $1.35 for each book.
THE RAT-PIT. By Patrick MacGill. A novel by the navvy-poet who
sprang suddenly into attention with his “Children of the Dead
End.” This story is mainly about a boarding house in Glasgow
called “The Rat-Pit,” and the very poor who are its frequenters.
Send $1.35.
THE AMETHYST RING. By Anatole France. Translated by B. Drillien.
$1.85 postpaid.
CRAINQUEBILLE. By Anatole France. Translated by Winifred Stevens.
The story of a costermonger who is turned from a dull-witted and
inoffensive creature by the hounding of the police and the too
rigorous measures of the law into a desperado. Send $1.85.
VIOLETTE OF PERE LACHAISE. By Anna Strunsky Walling. Records the
spiritual development of a gifted young woman who becomes an
actress and devotes herself to the social revolution. Send $1.10.
THE “GENIUS.” By Theodore Dreiser. Send $1.60.
JERUSALEM. By Selma Lagerlof. Translated by Velma Swanston. The
scene is a little Swedish village whose inhabitants are bound in
age-old custom and are asleep in their narrow provincial life.
The story tells of their awakening, of the tremendous social and
religious upheaval that takes place among them, and of the
heights of self-sacrifice to which they mount. Send $1.45.
BREAKING-POINT. By Michael Artzibashef. A comprehensive picture
of modern Russian life by the author of “Sanine.” Send $1.35.
RUSSIAN SILHOUETTES. By Anton Tchekoff. Translated by Marian
Fell. Stories which reveal the Russian mind, nature and
civilization. Send $1.47.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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