The Little Review, March 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 1)Various
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The Little Review, March 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 1)
Various
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals
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.
THE FREELANDS. By John Galsworthy. Gives a large and vivid
presentation of English life under the stress of modern social
conflict, centering upon a romance of boy-and-girl love—that
theme in which Galsworthy excels all his contemporaries. Send
$1.45.
FIDELITY. Susan Glaspell’s greatest novel. The author calls it
“The story of a woman’s love—of what that love impels her to
do—what it makes of her.” Send $1.45.
WOOD AND STONE. By John Cowper Powys. An Epoch Making Novel. Send
$1.60.
RED FLEECE. By Will Levington Comfort. A story of the Russian
revolutionists and the proletariat in general in the Great War,
and how they risk execution by preaching peace even in the
trenches. Exciting, understanding, and everlastingly true; for
Comfort himself is soldier and revolutionist as well as artist.
He is our American Artsibacheff; one of the very few American
masters of the “new fiction.” Send $1.35.
THE STAR ROVER. By Jack London. Frontispiece in colors by Jay
Hambidge. A man unjustly accused of murder is sentenced to
imprisonment and finally sent to execution, but proves the
supremacy of mind over matter by succeeding, after long practice,
in loosing his spirit from his body and sending it on long quests
through the universe, finally cheating the gallows in this way.
Send $1.60.
THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT. By H. G. Wells. Tells the story of the
life of one man, with its many complications with the lives of
others, both men and women of varied station, and his wanderings
over many parts of the globe in his search for the best and
noblest kind of life. $1.60, postpaid.
SEXOLOGY
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