Warwick Deeping’s Roper’s Row is an engaging romance about a brilliant doctor who finds love on his doorstep and tries to step around it.
Archive for the ‘Coming of age’ Category
Clear-eyed romance entrances
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Coming of age, Psychological novel, Romance, tagged London, medicine, Warwick Deeping on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Kitty Foyle is smart, sassy realist
Posted in 1939 Bestselling Novels, Coming of age, Fictional memoir, Romance on July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
You’ll like Kitty Foyle, laugh at her wry, self-protective wisecracks, and wish her love.
1918 Pulitzer winner no great prize today
Posted in 1918 Bestselling Novels, Coming of age, Juvenile/Youth, Romance, tagged automobiles, Booth Tarkington, industrialization on December 3, 2008 | Comments Off
The Magnificent Ambersons is one of Booth Tarkington’s less successful stories. Georgie is too nasty to be an appropriate target for Tarkington’s usual gentle satire, and Georgie’s growing up is too sudden to be plausible.
