Word: swinnerton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marry. Instead the officer turns civilian, the girl remain's an army's bride; remains, says Author Gaye, "the spirit of Joan of Arc"-vivandiere. Author Gaye, like so many other young English novelists, especially female ones, has been inordinately praised by Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton...
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...MERRY HEART−Frank Swinnerton−Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A "promising first novel" is distinctly more the vogue than "another book by. . . ." Frank Swinnerton, long-accepted writer of suave character studies, also wrote a First Novel, and it won him "immediate recognition as a young writer of distinction." Published now in this country, The Merry Heart is subtitled "A Gentle Melodrama," involving as it does the death of villain and the charming capers of a gay, cynical young hero. The complicated plot is only less fortuitous than that of Swinnerton's latest novel, A Brood of Ducklings...
...BROOD OF DUCKLINGS-Frank Swinnerton-Doubleday, Doran...
...town, to make love to her, he scuttled and flapped. In spite of his exertions, one daughter (not the one he had suspected) ran off with the laborite, and the other discovered an unexpected admirer. The discovery, and the confusion of identities smacks of threadbare "literary device," but Mr. Swinnerton (author of Nocturne, The Elder Sister) never fails in charm of atmosphere, virtuosity of human converse...