He is writing of modern society
life, particularly of one very charming young woman, Lady Harman, who
finds herself so bound in by conventions, so hampered by restrictions,
largely those of a well intentioned but short sighted husband, that
she is ultimately moved to revolt. The real meaning of this revolt,
its effect upon her life and those of her associates are narrated by
one who goes beneath the surface in his analysis of human motives.
In the group of characters, writers, suffragists, labor organizers,
social workers and society lights surrounding Lady Harman, and in the
dramatic incidents which compose the years of her existence which are
described by Mr. Wells, there is a novel which is significant in
its interpretation of the trend of affairs today, and fascinatingly
interesting as fiction. It is Mr. Wells at his best.
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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NEW MACMILLAN FICTION
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Thracian Sea
A Novel by JOHN HELSTON, Author of "Aphrodite," etc.
With frontispiece in colors. Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
Probably no author to-day has written more powerfully or frankly on
the conventions of modern society than John Helston, who, however, has
hitherto confined himself to the medium of verse. In this novel, the
theme of which occasionally touches upon the same problems--problems
involving love, freedom of expression, the right to live one's life in
one's own way--he is revealed to be no less a master of the prose
form than of the poetical.
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