Fair Rewards, The

By Beer, Thomas

Book Id: WPLBN0002954671
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File Size: 191.68 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Fair Rewards, The
Author:	Beer, Thomas
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Fair Rewards, The
Historic Publication Date:	1922
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
The Fair Rewards by Thomas Beer . . . is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even borders on brilliancy, but it is a hard, cold, cynical sort of brilliancy that chills. It almost hurts . . . The title itself is indicative of cynicism. It is derived from Shakespeare's quotation, These be the fair rewards of those that love, and it is an ironical reference, for Mark Walling, the blind, simple, loving idolater, in return for his great and unselfish devotion to Margot, reaps selfishness and ingratitude and lack of consideration. Hand in hand with the progress of Mark from country yokel to a stage producer goes the history of the American theatre. Intermingled with the imaginary characters are Clyde Fitch, Anna Held, Mr. Frohman and several other flesh-and-blood personages that strengthen the realism. (New York Times review, June 4, 1922)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction