WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE'S
A Certain Rich Man
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Dr. Washington Gladden considered this book of sufficient importance to take it and the text from which the title was drawn as his subject for an entire sermon, in the course of which he said: "In its ethical and social significance it is the most important piece of fiction that has lately appeared in America. I do not think that a more trenchant word has been spoken to this nation since 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' And it is profoundly to be hoped that this book may do for the prevailing Mammonism what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for slavery."
"Mr. White has written a big and satisfying book made up of the elements of American life as we know them--the familiar humor, sorrows, ambitions, crimes, sacrifices--revealed to us with peculiar freshness and vigor in the multitude of human actions and by the crowd of delightful people who fill his four hundred odd pages.... It deserves a high place among the novels that deal with American life. No recent American novel save one has sought to cover so broad a canvas, or has created so strong an impression of ambition and of sincerity."--_Chicago Evening Post._
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Other People's Houses
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"It is a story rich in atmosphere, in allusion, and in vistas.... The story is full of action. The characters have virility and in certain instances charm, and the course of the story awakens no little concern on the part of the reader. An interesting, varied, and amusing group of persons is presented, and, ... take it for all in all, it is a work of taste, discrimination, and power.... Its publishers may congratulate themselves on having come upon another oasis in the present desert of American fiction."--_Chicago Tribune._
"If an unknown author is to keep an entire novel to this level, that author will be unknown no longer, but at a single bound has reached the height, not only of good American novelists, but of any novelist doing fiction in these days."--_Chicago Post._
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