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[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well…
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The Prodigal Parents, A Novel
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The Prodigal Parents : a novel.
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[Garden City], NY : Doubleday, Doran & Company, c1938., 1938. Very Good. 1st ed. (unstated) ; red cloth ; LCCN: 38-27043 ; OCLC: 288640 ; where else can you find epithets like, "you Soviet Salvation Army lassie!" and characters with names like Cornplow and Staybridge? ; classic Lewis ; VG
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