Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 139
... novel The Deserted Wife enlarges the theme . Mrs. Southworth often repeated situations and inci dents in her fifty novels . Many of her episodes were autobiographical , and the settings were nearly all those she knew best in Maryland ...
... novel The Deserted Wife enlarges the theme . Mrs. Southworth often repeated situations and inci dents in her fifty novels . Many of her episodes were autobiographical , and the settings were nearly all those she knew best in Maryland ...
Page 149
... novels , including The Backwoods Bride and Off With the Old Love . But the two dime - novel best sellers were Mrs. Stephens ' Malaeska , which was Number One of the series , and E. S. Ellis ' Seth Jones , which was Number Eight . Mrs ...
... novels , including The Backwoods Bride and Off With the Old Love . But the two dime - novel best sellers were Mrs. Stephens ' Malaeska , which was Number One of the series , and E. S. Ellis ' Seth Jones , which was Number Eight . Mrs ...
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... novel , but it was written with much skill and power and without direct preaching . Plotting and the succession of dramatic incidents were in the tradition of the older novel ; some critics sniffed , especially at the mediocre writing ...
... novel , but it was written with much skill and power and without direct preaching . Plotting and the succession of dramatic incidents were in the tradition of the older novel ; some critics sniffed , especially at the mediocre writing ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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