The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940Ford, Douglas Morey
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The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940
Ford, Douglas Morey
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Socialism -- Fiction; Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- Fiction
_By the Author of "A Time of Terror."_
Morning Post.--"_The Devil's Peepshow_ is a remarkable book.... Its
interest is never in doubt.... The causeries of this little company
afford just those opportunities for political criticisms and shrewd
moralising in which the author is singularly felicitous.... But the
political lessons are not framed in epigram alone.... The delightful
and erudite essay on the 'Weird of the Wanderer' is, perhaps, the best
thing in the book, and strikes the undercurrent of mysticism with
fine suggestiveness.... Whoever the author is, he is a man of nice
penetration, and a philosopher worth listening to."
Westminster Review. "Love and politics in equal proportions form the
main ingredients of _The Devil's Peepshow_, ... and the lurid title ...
serves as a fitting preliminary to the series of sensational episodes
that make up this story with an unmistakable purpose."
Liverpool Daily Post. "The volume is as thrilling as its
predecessor.... The central theme of the story, that of a strong man of
high qualities and noble ambitions, who falls a victim to the lures of
an enchantress, is well developed. The author has force of style."
Irish Times.--"The most impressive passages are those regarding the
unfortunate position of some of the middle classes."
Yorkshire Dally Post.--" ... it is a very up-to-date story of London
Society during the season 1906, in which all the prominent politicians
and personages of the day take part.... The novel is, however, no
mere sensational melodrama, for the author makes it the medium for
expressing very freely his ideas on politics and religion, which are
by no means complimentary to the present Government, whose individual
members he ridicules unsparingly and not without power ... the very
strength of the contrast gives it relish."
A TIME OF TERROR
(Second Edition).
Evening Standard.--"A politico-social romance of London and
England--prophetic, of course, sensational and thrilling."
Scotchman.--"Truly a time of terror, and the anonymous author has a
clever enough pen with which to expose the vices--some of them real
enough--of the opening years of the twentieth century."
Outlook.--"The story of a man's revenge against a nation, our own.
After war and internal anarchy, the capture of the Kaiser and the death
of the avenger ends with a national thanksgiving. Very eventful."
The Tribune.--"Whatever the cause, the occurrences are certainly
terrible; ... beside the lurid vision, enormous in range and horrifying
in nature, the accumulated sensations of a score of 'shilling shockers'
pale into insignificance.... The book is written with much spirit."
Yorkshire Post.--"The details are worked out so cleverly that there is
a thrill on nearly every page. This is the work, one would say, of a
practised writer, and the lover of sensational literature should not
omit to read it."
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