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Below the Babbittry
Hazlitt, Henry | August 20, 1930 issue

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The article discusses the book "Youth Dares All." The book is one of the most brilliantly humorous picaresque novels of American life. Its hero, Eddie Law, is at once a living character, finely realized and a walking embodiment of a huge slice of national mores. Law is a broader caricature of the lower-class American. He is a small-town loafer, a sharper, a lecher, a coward and a cad, but this is an autobiographical narrative. Law tells it himself, with his own grandiloquent illiteracy and to himself he is always the glamorous adventurer, honest, ambitious, industrious and pure and his career a romantic saga.

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YOUTH Dares All (Book); PICARESQUE literature; HUMOROUS stories; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL fiction; CARICATURE; SATIRE; SOCIAL classes
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