His Great Adventure

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Macmillan, 1913 - Fiction - 408 pages
 

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Page 267 - Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me : I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply...
Page 75 - As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots.
Page 259 - tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. Glo. The trick of that voice I do well remember : Is't not the king ? Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes.
Page 404 - A book of first magnitude, that handles a momentous theme boldly, wisely, sympathetically, and with an insight into racial traits that makes It In the best sense a representative American novel.
Page 176 - Even in his quixotic renunciation, his determination to turn away from the happiness he had found, there was a glowing conviction that this was not the end. The spirit would survive. 'Twas, indeed, but the start, the preparation for another adventure, larger, more thrilling, that loomed before him, across the ocean.
Page 175 - ... man's purpose, the growth of will as he met each fresh complication, the physical and moral regeneration of the long trail into Mexico, above all by the sense of triumph gained in his encounter with the Berlin banker.
Page 404 - Chicago Inter-Ocean. THE WEB OF LIFE " It is strong in that it faithfully depicts many phases of American life, and uses them to strengthen a web of fiction, which is most artistically wrought out.
Page 403 - A novel of unusual merit. Remarkable and clear and just psychology. Ranks high among the studies of modern womankind.
Page 228 - It has to have Romance with a capital R to sugar-coat any idea before it will swallow it.
Page 403 - One follows with keen appreciation the natural and simple exposition of this woman's one desire in life to 'make good

About the author (1913)

Robert Welch Herrick (April 21, 1868 - December 23, 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. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Herrick attended Harvard University and later taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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). He also wrote Clark's Field, The Man Who Wins, One Woman's Life and The World Decision. In January 1935, he was appointed as a Secretary to the United States Virgin Islands. Herrick died of a heart attack on December 23, 1938 while in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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