For Myself Alone
For Myself Alone
Translated from the French ofANDRÉ CORTHIS
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The Publishers consider it a privilege to announce this English translation of “Pour Moi Seule”—perhaps one of the finest products of modern French literature.
Here are extracts from the review of the French edition in theTimes Literary Supplementof March 25, 1920: “A book which can be read with pleasure and recommended without reserve. It is not only an excellent novel, but a fine piece of intuitive writing. Here there seems to be a new modern Madame Bovary, a Madame Bovary who does not commit adultery. It is that novel which recurs to one’s mind in thinking of M. Corthis’s book, without any uneasy sensation that the newer work is only a reflection of the older. M. Corthis has restated the same general situation. Flaubert worked out the resulting tragedy in one way and M. Corthis works it out quite differently, hardly with less bitterness but with equal logic.... The virtuosity of M. Corthis is never meaningless; he has created characters whose lives can become part of one’s own, as if they were familiar acquaintances.”
Woman
ByMAGDELEINE MARX
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“Woman” is being published simultaneously in almost every country. In France and elsewhere it is the subject of lectures and long essays by prominent professors. The author became a celebrity in a day. The most famous men and women, unsolicited, expressed amazed enthusiasm about this strikingly new creation and the young, gifted authoress—Romain Rolland, Georg Brandes, Israel Zangwill, Bertrand Russell, Henri Barbusse, Isadora Duncan and others.
Here are extracts from what some of them say:—
Romain Rolland.—“It is the work of a great talent, a vigorous work.”Georg Brandes.—“An admirable book, original, profound, daring.”Henri Barbusse.—“This book has created a sensation in France. I have no hesitation in applying to it the words ‘genius’ and ‘masterpiece.’”
Romain Rolland.—“It is the work of a great talent, a vigorous work.”
Georg Brandes.—“An admirable book, original, profound, daring.”
Henri Barbusse.—“This book has created a sensation in France. I have no hesitation in applying to it the words ‘genius’ and ‘masterpiece.’”
The Burning Secret
BySTEFAN ZWEIG
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A brilliant psychological study of a clever child. The story deals with a single episode in his life, when he is staying at a holiday resort with his mother. He is at the impressionable age when the conflict between childhood and young adolescence has just set in. The writer’s shrewd insight into the child’s mind at this age of dawning perceptions is remarkable.
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This is a remarkable book. The author has attempted, in the form of an autobiography, to reconstruct the life of Judas Iscariot, following accurately such historic and traditional records as are available. It is an effort to present the character of the infamous betrayer as a man, jealous of his Master’s power and perfection, secretive, skeptical; but in the end convinced of his own extreme unworthiness in contrast with the Christ. It is a work revealing unusual psychological insight, and, in its way, a notable contribution to Biblical criticism.
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The author, one of the best known sinologists of France, presents in an extremely original manner the dramatic, sentimental, and often comical episodes of such marriages, which he has witnessed several times during his long career in China.