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Reception Storm Jameson
The Hidden River had some bad reviews in influential places, but excellent sales. It was a Book Society choice, earning £2,500 in English royalties, £268 from Book-of-the-Month Club in Canada, and a dollar amount...
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir . There was much debate over the real-life...
Reception George Orwell
Animal Farm was and is extremely successful. It sold half a million copies in its first month, thanks to the American Book-of-the-Month Club ,
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams.
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and has been translated into every major language, including some...
Textual Production Pearl S. Buck
Fighting Angel relies heavily on the reminiscences which PSB 's father divulged to her in the last years of his life, when his former reticence was at last dissolved and in turn dissolved her resentment...
Textual Production Isak Dinesen
Dorothy Canfield Fisher contributed an introduction. Blixen had begun writing in earnest on her Kenyan farm, and from at least 1926 had entertained the idea of publication as a means of alleviating her financial...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Delafield
In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD was probably influenced by George and Weedon Grossmith 's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...

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