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Susan Lenox Her Fall and Rise

By David Graham Phillips

2020-04-16 19:25:51

I do not know what the public may think of Susan Lenox. I scarcely know what I think. It is a terrible book -- terrible and true and beautiful. Under the depths there are unspeakable things that writhe. His plumb-line touches them and they squir ... Read more
I do not know what the public may think of Susan Lenox. I scarcely know what I think. It is a terrible book -- terrible and true and beautiful. Under the depths there are unspeakable things that writhe. His plumb-line touches them and they squirm. He bends his head from the clouds to do it. Is it worth doing? I dont know. But this I do know -- that within the range of all fiction of all lands and of all times no character has so overwhelmed me as the character of Susan Lenox. In the presence of his last work, so overwhelming, so stupendous, we lesser men are left at a loss. Its magnitude demands the perspective that time only can lend it. Less

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File size782.162 KB
Print pages742
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1598185492
David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high scho...

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