Word: fictions
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...official reports were received. From Shanghai came indirect information of the disaster, and disaster was the one sure truth. A quake of unparalleled severity, fire, tidal waves, famine, explosives, hundreds of thousands of houses wrecked, hundreds of thousands of people killed?fact and fiction were woven in a horrible fabric of destruction and death...
Miss Christabel Pankhurst, evangelist: "At a Presbyterian conference, said I: 'Because of the immorality of the fiction of our day I do not see how girls have the slightest chance to remain good...
...Poor publishers?they see a book that ten years ago might have been a knockout from the point of view of sales stick on their shelves like fly paper?another which they thought would hardly pay for its binding bound to dazzling success. The publishing of fiction is a tremendous, enthralling gamble?a continual laying of bets as to which way that nervous and feline creature, Popular Taste, is going to jump. And, generally, it jumps the other way. For the average novel hardly recoups its publisher for his initial expenses?if that. Or so they tell the author...
...editor of the paper which published this falsely-sentimental fiction (New York Tribune) once received a letter from a wag: "Kindly stop our Tribune immediately. Grandmother died last night...
...Sinclair Lewis, who kodaks as he goes, has written two best-sellers on the subject, apparently, of what most people are. But Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter, a woman who writes on the theory that " the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began," holds an audience of 45,000,000 men, women and children by telling them what they certainly are not but (presumably) would like...