Part 49 (2/2)
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THE OCTOPUS. A Story of California
Mr. Norris conceived the ambitious idea of writing a trilogy of novels which, taken together, shall symbolize American life as a whole, with all its hopes and aspirations and its tendencies, throughout the length and breadth of the continent. And for the central symbol he has taken wheat, as being quite literally the ultimate source of American power and prosperity. _The Octopus_ is a story of wheat raising and railroad greed in California. It immediately made a place for itself.
It is full of enthusiasm and poetry and conscious strength. One cannot read it without a responsive thrill of sympathy for the earnestness, the breadth of purpose, the verbal power of the man.
THE PIT. A Story of Chicago.
This powerful novel is the fict.i.tious narrative of a deal in the Chicago wheat pit and holds the reader from the beginning. In a masterly way the author has grasped the essential spirit of the great city by the lakes.
The social existence, the gambling in stocks and produce, the characteristic life in Chicago, form a background for an exceedingly vigorous and human tale of modern life and love.
A MAN'S WOMAN.
A story which has for a heroine a girl decidedly out of the ordinary run of fiction. It is most dramatic, containing some tremendous pictures of the daring of the men who are trying to reach the Pole * * * but it is at the same time essentially a _woman's_ book, and the story works itself out in the solution of a difficulty that is continually presented in real life--the wife's att.i.tude in relation to her husband when both have well-defined careers.
McTEAGUE. A Story of San Francisco.
”Since Bret Harte and the Forty-niner no one has written of California life with the vigor and accuracy of Mr. Norris. His 'McTeague' settled his right to a place in American literature; and he has now presented a third novel, 'Blix,' which is in some respects the finest and likely to be the most popular of the three.”--_Was.h.i.+ngton Times._
BLIX.
”Frank Norris has written in 'Blix' just what such a woman's name would imply--a story of a frank, fearless girl comrade to all men who are true and honest because she is true and honest. How she saved the man she fishes and picnics with in a spirit of outdoor platonic friends.h.i.+p, makes a pleasant story, and a perfect contrast to the author's 'McTeague.' A splendid and successful story.”--_Was.h.i.+ngton Times._
NEW EDITIONS OF THE MOST POPULAR NOVELS Of HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES
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SATAN SANDERSON. With halftone ill.u.s.trations by A. B. Wenzell, and inlay cover in colors.
From the heroic figures of the American Revolution and the romantic personage of Byron's day, Miss Rives has turned to the here and now. And in the present she finds for her immense and brilliant talent a tale as dramatic and enthralling as any of the storied past. The career of the Rev. Harry Sanderson, known as ”Satan” in his college days, who sowed the wind to reap the whirlwind and won at last through strangest penance the prize of love, seizes the reader in the strait grip of its feverish interest. Miss Rives has outdone herself in the invention of a love story that rings with lyric feeling and touches every fiber of the heart with strength and beauty.
THE CASTAWAY. With ill.u.s.trations in colors by Howard Chandler Christy.
The book takes its t.i.tle from a saying of Lord Byron's: ”Three great men ruined in one year--a king, a cad, and a castaway.” The king was Napoleon. The cad was Beau Brummel. And the castaway, crowned with genius, s.m.u.tched with slander, illumined by fame--was Lord Byron himself! This is the romance of his loves--the strange marriage and still stranger separation, the riotous pa.s.sions, the final enn.o.bling affection--from the day when he awoke to find himself the most famous man in England, till, a self-exiled castaway, he played out his splendid death-scene in the struggle for Greek freedom.
”Suffused with the rosy light of romance.”--_New York Times._
HEARTS COURAGEOUS. With ill.u.s.trations by A. B. Wenzell.
”Hearts Courageous” is made of new material, a picturesque yet delicate style, good plot and very dramatic situations. The best in the book are the defense of George Was.h.i.+ngton by the Marquis; the duel between the English officer and the Marquis; and Patrick Henry flinging the brand of war into the a.s.sembly of the burgesses of Virginia. Williamsburgh, Virginia, the country round about, and the life led in that locality just before the Revolution, form an attractive setting for the action of the story.
THE RECKONING. By Robert W. Chambers. With ill.u.s.trations by Henry Hutt.
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