| The Common Lot: Large Print Contributor(s): Herrick, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1676155333 ISBN-13: 9781676155331 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.30 lbs) 250 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) was a novelist who was part of a new generation of American realists. His novels deal with the turbulence of industrialized society and the turmoil it can create in sensitive, isolated people. He was also briefly acting-Governor of the United States Virgin Islands in 1935. From 1905 to 1923, he was a professor of literature at the University of Chicago, during which time he wrote thirteen novels. Among those considered to be his finest was Web of Life (1900). His art was free of dogmatic isms and achieves its power from a melancholic fatalism. He dreaded the brutality and ignorance of the mob as much as he despised the avarice and ennui of the upper class. He was suspicious of political doctrines and utopian legislation, feeling that true progress for human happiness must always lie in individuals making moral choices. His works include: Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories (1897), The Man Who Wins (1897), The Gopsel of Freedom (1898), The Real World (1901), Their Child (1903), Together (1908) and A Life for a Life (1910). |
