A NOVEL OF COMPELLING INTERESTThe Heart of DesireBy ELIZABETH DEJEANSAuthor of “The Winning Chance.”WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE KINNEYS12MO. CLOTH, $1.50A remarkable novel, full of vital force, which gives us a glimpse into the innermost sanctuary of a woman’s soul—a revelation of the truth that to a woman there may be a greater thing than the love of a man—the story pictured against a wonderful Southern California background.“One of the big headliners in bookland.”—Detroit News.“The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily.”—Chicago Tribune.“One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic excellence of which is uniform and even throughout.”—Charleston News and Courier.“There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy. But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most beautiful human qualities—or rather, brings those latent emotions to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman ‘lied to, tortured, duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated’; and in giving up her beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the ‘helpless, motherless, hampered’ child who so passionately claimed his love, Kate’s humanism stands out in almost supernatural power.”—Boston Evening Transcript.J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANYPUBLISHERSPHILADELPHIA
A NOVEL OF COMPELLING INTERESTThe Heart of DesireBy ELIZABETH DEJEANSAuthor of “The Winning Chance.”WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE KINNEYS12MO. CLOTH, $1.50A remarkable novel, full of vital force, which gives us a glimpse into the innermost sanctuary of a woman’s soul—a revelation of the truth that to a woman there may be a greater thing than the love of a man—the story pictured against a wonderful Southern California background.“One of the big headliners in bookland.”—Detroit News.“The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily.”—Chicago Tribune.“One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic excellence of which is uniform and even throughout.”—Charleston News and Courier.“There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy. But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most beautiful human qualities—or rather, brings those latent emotions to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman ‘lied to, tortured, duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated’; and in giving up her beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the ‘helpless, motherless, hampered’ child who so passionately claimed his love, Kate’s humanism stands out in almost supernatural power.”—Boston Evening Transcript.J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANYPUBLISHERSPHILADELPHIA
A NOVEL OF COMPELLING INTEREST
The Heart of Desire
By ELIZABETH DEJEANS
Author of “The Winning Chance.”
WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE KINNEYS
12MO. CLOTH, $1.50
A remarkable novel, full of vital force, which gives us a glimpse into the innermost sanctuary of a woman’s soul—a revelation of the truth that to a woman there may be a greater thing than the love of a man—the story pictured against a wonderful Southern California background.
“One of the big headliners in bookland.”—Detroit News.“The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily.”—Chicago Tribune.“One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic excellence of which is uniform and even throughout.”—Charleston News and Courier.“There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy. But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most beautiful human qualities—or rather, brings those latent emotions to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman ‘lied to, tortured, duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated’; and in giving up her beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the ‘helpless, motherless, hampered’ child who so passionately claimed his love, Kate’s humanism stands out in almost supernatural power.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“One of the big headliners in bookland.”—Detroit News.
“The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily.”—Chicago Tribune.
“One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic excellence of which is uniform and even throughout.”—Charleston News and Courier.
“There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy. But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most beautiful human qualities—or rather, brings those latent emotions to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman ‘lied to, tortured, duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated’; and in giving up her beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the ‘helpless, motherless, hampered’ child who so passionately claimed his love, Kate’s humanism stands out in almost supernatural power.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PUBLISHERSPHILADELPHIA