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Mr. Sinclair's Alger Novel
Calverton, V. F. | June 11, 1930 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. "Mountain City," by author Upton Sinclair, is exactly the kind of novel author Horatio Alger might have written if he had possessed a social conscience. It is a rapid-racing narrative, gaspingly rapid after it achieves its momentum, vivid with episodes one more incredible than another, rising to a climax cinematographic in intensity and thrill. Its characters, however are no more, or no less, real than those in "Phil the Fiddler," and its theme is hardly more convincing than the aid familiar one that is to be found in almost any Algeresque fiction.

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LITERATURE; AUTHORS; SINCLAIR, Upton, 1878-1968; FICTION; ALGER, Horatio, 1832-1899; PROSE literature
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