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Devastating Elegance
van Doren, Dorothy | November 27, 1929 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Harriet Hume. A London Fantasy," by Rebecca West. The book is in at least one respect a very terrible book. For in it Miss West has seized upon an idea so dreadful and so devastating that if it should ever become a fact not only empires but civilizations would crumble. Miss West is a writer of the most scrupulous elegance and this talent does not fail her here. Without the decoration that makes some of her contemporaries hard to read, she cuts her lines with a careful and polished tool, she has an edge, she has form, she has sculptured substance. If this elegance becomes at times a trifle oppressive, it is perhaps because of the impetuosity of her idea.

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HARRIET Hume (Book); WEST, Rebecca, 1892-1983; FANTASY; CIVILIZATION; LOVE; FICTION
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