The Great God Success

Author : David Phillips
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ISBN 13 : 9781537151298
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Great God Success written by David Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He is sure to be a big figure in American literature." -The Saturday Evening Post "In the story, Howard, the hero, two months out of Yale, finds employment with inadequate returns on the reportorial staff of the News Record (The New York World) and goes to live in this house, where he meets the girl Alice and experiences one of life's poignant tragedies. David Graham Phillips, in writing 'The Great God Success,' was trying his prentice hand...there is a curious echo of Balzac's 'Pere Goriot' in one paragraph of the tale....As has been indicated, it was 'The Great God Success' that led Phillips to take the decisive step It was against the wishes and advice of many of his closest friends. They pointed out that it was giving up a comfortable position in journalism for the uncertainties of fiction....It was indeed a step that called for courage." -The Bookman "Shows the pen of a man of imagination with brain trained to alertness, and here also was the human quality and the ethical impulse....Illustrates the versatility of the author and his capacity to do great work." -The Arena "One of the modern sort of prolific writers." -Princeton Alumni Weekly "Courage, especially in our over-refined times, is perhaps more valuable than style. To the quality of courage, indeed, that of style has still a chance to come. It is this that is likely to keep in remembrance the name of David Graham Phillips as an American novelist. In a time when, despite the great number of writers and the higher average of technical skill, our novelists were not so adequately depicting their time and place as did, say, the two Edgars, Fawcett and Saltus, or even the earliest efforts of Henry James and Mr. Howells, Phillips came up out of the journalistic ranks conspicuously determined to write, as forthrightly as possible, a candid chronicle of the world he lived in. Candor and courage remained, to the end, his distinguishing virtues. He discovered the sinister side to our conduct of affairs political and financial; having done that, he moved on to what took still greater courage: to discover to herself, and the world in general, the shortcomings of the American woman, whom so many artists in pen and pencil conspire to figure as humanity's supreme development in our time. He did this, realizing that woman dominates America's taste for fiction as for all the other arts. Devoid of charm in manner, he so honestly was telling the truth as he saw it, that - like England in some of her campaigns - he 'blundered through somehow' to a secure position among the bestsellers....He was obviously coming constantly to a larger outlook upon life, though he had not yet sloughed off a certain jingoistic parochialism permitting him to utter some essentially journalistic commonplaces about foreign aristocracies." -The Forum CONTENTS I. THE CANDIDATE FROM YALE II. THE CITY EDITOR RECONSIDERS III. A PARK ROW CELEBRITY IV. IN THE EDGE OF BOHEMIA V. ALICE VI. IN A BOHEMIAN QUICKSAND VII. A LITTLE CANDLE GOES OUT VIII. A STRUGGLE FOR SELF-CONTROL IX. AMBITION AWAKENS X. THE ETERNAL MASCULINE XI. TRESPASSING XII. MAKING THE MOST OF A MONTH XIII. RECKONING WITH DANVERS XIV. THE NEWS-RECORD GETS A NEW EDITOR XV. YELLOW JOURNALISM XVI. MR. STOKELY IS TACTLESS XVII. A WOMAN AND A WARNING XVIII. HOWARD EXPLAINS HIS MACHINE XIX. "I MUST BE RICH." XX. ILLUSION XXI. WAVERING XXII. THE SHENSTONE EPISODE XXIII. EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING XXIV. "MR. VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH." XXV. THE PROMISED LAND XXVI. IN POSSESSION XXVII. THE HARVEST XXVIII. SUCCESS