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1varielle
US F I C T I O N
1. The U. P. Trail, Zane Grey 21 copies on LT
2. The Tree of Heaven, May Sinclair 2 copies
3. The Amazing Interlude, Mary Roberts Rinehart 11 copies
4. Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie, Edward Streeter 7 copies
5. Oh, Money! Money!, Eleanor H. Porter 0 copies
6. Greatheart, Ethel M. Dell 0 copies
7. The Major, Ralph Connor 4 copies
8. The Pawns Count, E. Phillips Oppenheim 0 copies
9. A Daughter of the Land, Gene Stratton Porter 52 copies
10. Sonia, Stephen McKenna 3 copies
G E N E R A L - N O N F I C T I O N
1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service 78 copies
2. Treasury of War Poetry, G. H. Clark 0 copies
3. With the Colors, Everard J. Appleton 0 copies
4. Recollections, John Viscount Morley 7 copies
5. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks 5 copies
6. Mark Twain's Letters, Albert Bigelow Paine, editor 60 copies
7. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, Richard Harding Davis 4 copies
8. Over Here: War Time Rhymes, Edgar A. Guest 7 copies
9. Diplomatic Days, Edith O'Shaughnessy 0 copies
10. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger 5 copies
W A R - B O O K S
1. My Four Years in Germany, James W. Gerard
15 copies
2. The Glory of the Trenches: An Interpretation, Coningsby Dawson 1 copy
3. Over the Top By an American Soldier, Arthur Guy Empey 16 copies
4. A Minstrel in France, Harry Lauder 9 copies
5. Private Peat, Harold R. Peat 7 copies
6. Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp, Lieut. Pat O'Brien 1 copy
7. Face to Face with Kaiserism, James W. Gerard 3 copies
8. Carry On: Letters in War-Time, Coningsby Dawson 5 copies
9. Out to Win, Coningsby Dawson 0 copies
10. Under Fire: Story of a Squad, Henri Barbusse 16 copies
1. The U. P. Trail, Zane Grey 21 copies on LT
2. The Tree of Heaven, May Sinclair 2 copies
3. The Amazing Interlude, Mary Roberts Rinehart 11 copies
4. Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie, Edward Streeter 7 copies
5. Oh, Money! Money!, Eleanor H. Porter 0 copies
6. Greatheart, Ethel M. Dell 0 copies
7. The Major, Ralph Connor 4 copies
8. The Pawns Count, E. Phillips Oppenheim 0 copies
9. A Daughter of the Land, Gene Stratton Porter 52 copies
10. Sonia, Stephen McKenna 3 copies
G E N E R A L - N O N F I C T I O N
1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service 78 copies
2. Treasury of War Poetry, G. H. Clark 0 copies
3. With the Colors, Everard J. Appleton 0 copies
4. Recollections, John Viscount Morley 7 copies
5. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks 5 copies
6. Mark Twain's Letters, Albert Bigelow Paine, editor 60 copies
7. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, Richard Harding Davis 4 copies
8. Over Here: War Time Rhymes, Edgar A. Guest 7 copies
9. Diplomatic Days, Edith O'Shaughnessy 0 copies
10. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger 5 copies
W A R - B O O K S
1. My Four Years in Germany, James W. Gerard
15 copies
2. The Glory of the Trenches: An Interpretation, Coningsby Dawson 1 copy
3. Over the Top By an American Soldier, Arthur Guy Empey 16 copies
4. A Minstrel in France, Harry Lauder 9 copies
5. Private Peat, Harold R. Peat 7 copies
6. Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp, Lieut. Pat O'Brien 1 copy
7. Face to Face with Kaiserism, James W. Gerard 3 copies
8. Carry On: Letters in War-Time, Coningsby Dawson 5 copies
9. Out to Win, Coningsby Dawson 0 copies
10. Under Fire: Story of a Squad, Henri Barbusse 16 copies
3geneg
Robert W. Service is one of my favorite poets. His stuff is generally looked down upon by the cognoscenti, but for every The Shooting of Dan McGrew or Cremation of Sam McGee there is The Call of the Yukon or The Rhyme of the Remittance Man. And bygolly, I don't care what those who claim to know, say. I like his stuff. It speaks to me. That's what poetry is supposed to do, speak to us.
5varielle
It's amazing the number of ex-boy scouts I know who claim they used to always recite Robert Service poetry around the campfire.
6aviddiva
The only Service poems I've read are Dan McGrew and Sam McGee.
I have A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter. It's the bleakest of her novels that I've read, and my least favorite.
I have A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter. It's the bleakest of her novels that I've read, and my least favorite.
7jillmwo
I only discovered Gene Stratton-Porter as an adult but it wasn't through A Daughter of the Land. I can't recall what brought the book to my attention, but I thoroughly enjoyed Girl of the Limberlost and it has still stuck with me some years later. She was really quite good.
8aviddiva
Some of her books are very dated now, but she tells a good story and her nature descriptions are wonderful.
9Catreona
3: Absolutely. I decided a long time ago that what critics think is irrelevant. What matters is, as you put it, what speaks to a given reader.
10Catreona
The only book on this list I've read is the Rinehart. I can't decide if it's a condemnation of war or a condemnation of U.S. isolationism...or both. Certainly, it is a lovely and powerful book. I recommend it.
11rocketjk
Put me down as one who's loved Robert Service since childhood and never found any reason to stop
14vpfluke
Robert Service (#2) was truly a favorite of my mother-in-law, and she knew a couple of his poems by heart.
15vpfluke
Looking to see if anyone now owns some of the zero copies in Message 1, I see that Oh Money! Money! now has 5 copies in LT; Greatheart has 9 copies; and The Pawns Count has 1.
16vpfluke
I'll try the Greatheart touchstone again.
17geneg
I've got a very old edition of Spell of the Yukon, well, but gently handled.
18nhlsecord
I have some Zane Grey books but not that one and I can't remember reading it. I've read The Amazing Interlude, and Porter's book (I really like her and I buy her books whenever I can find them), and The Major. I have several Connor books too.
192wonderY
Looking up which centennial bestsellers I might have.
The only one on my shelf is Oh, Money! Money!. I plan to dig it out and read it before the end of the year.
The only one on my shelf is Oh, Money! Money!. I plan to dig it out and read it before the end of the year.
202wonderY
>1 varielle: Many of your touchstones are incorrect.
I did read Oh, Money! Money! and enjoyed it, but it's pretty standard fare for the time.
I also own A Daughter of the Land, but haven't read it.
Varielle posted, elsewhere in this group, an article that references titles published that have lasting value.
For 1918, it lists
Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
Willa Cather, My Antonia
I own both, but have only read the former thus far. Tarkington is a favorite of mine.
I did read Oh, Money! Money! and enjoyed it, but it's pretty standard fare for the time.
I also own A Daughter of the Land, but haven't read it.
Varielle posted, elsewhere in this group, an article that references titles published that have lasting value.
For 1918, it lists
Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
Willa Cather, My Antonia
I own both, but have only read the former thus far. Tarkington is a favorite of mine.
21varielle
Yes, I imagine from ten years ago they've gotten off a bit as well as the counts. I was forced to read My Antonia in high school. Not a fan at the time. I may have to try again.