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Title: Cleo The Magnificent
The Muse of the Real
Author: Louis Zangwill
Release Date: June 23, 2009 [eBook #29207]
Language: English
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CLEO THE MAGNIFICENT
by
LOUIS ZANGWILL
* * * * *
MR. LOUIS ZANGWILL'S WORKS.
A Drama in Dutch.
_Spectator:_ Certainly a book which has not merely cleverness but real
vitality.
_Speaker:_ Deliciously original ... and told with great spirit, humor
and dramatic vigor.
"T. P." in _Weekly Sun:_ What a delightful creation Mrs. de Griendt
is! Indeed I should have personally been glad if we had had more of
her.... I think the reader will agree with me that I have not
exaggerated the literary merit of this exquisitely-described scene.
The World and a Man.
_Academy:_ A masterful novelist.
_Illustrated London News:_ One of the cleverest novels of the day.
_Pall Mall Gazette:_ Finely told.... It is an achievement in a high
form of art.
_Daily Chronicle:_ It contains many passages which the greatest
masters in the same _genre_ might have been proud to have written.
The Beautiful Miss Brooke.
_Brooklyn Eagle:_ A brilliant bit of work.
_Detroit Free Press:_ He has analyzed with ability and finish.... This
is a story to be admired for its discernment and its originality.
_Boston Beacon:_ The story is thoroughly entertaining and well done,
... and in analysis of character, force, and directness, it exceeds
the author's previous essays in fiction.
_Chicago Record:_ Very few recent novels which have come out of
England will
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