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GROSSET & DUNLAP'SDRAMATIZED NOVELS
THE KIND THAT ARE MAKING THEATRICAL HISTORY
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_WITHIN THE LAW._ By Bayard Veiller & Martin Dana. Illustrated by Wm.Charles Cooke.
This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran fortwo years in New York and Chicago.
The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directedagainst her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison for threeyears on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.
_WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY._ By Robert Carlton Brown. Illustrated withscenes from the play.
This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girl who is suddenlythrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of her dreams," whereshe is exposed to all sorts of temptations and dangers.
The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played intheatres all over the world.
_THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM._ By David Belasco. Illustrated by John Rae.
This is a novelization of the popular play in which David War, field, asOld Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.
The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal, powerful,both as a book and as a play.
_THE GARDEN OF ALLAH._ By Robert Hichens.
This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlitbarbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.
It is a book of rapturous beauty, vivid in word painting. The play hasbeen staged with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.
_BEN HUR._ A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace.
The whole world has placed this famous Religious--Historical Romance ona height of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has reached.The clashing of rivalry and the deepest human passions, the perfectreproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce atmosphereof the arena have kept their deep fascination. A tremendous dramaticsuccess.
_BOUGHT AND PAID FOR._ By George Broadhurst and Arthur Hornblow.Illustrated with scenes from the play.
A stupendous arraignment of modern marriage which has created aninterest on the stage that is almost unparalleled. The scenes are laidin New York, and deal with conditions among both the rich and poor.
The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments whichshow the young wife the price she has paid.
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GROSSET & DUNLAP'S DRAMATIZED NOVELS
Original, sincere and courageous--often amusing--the kind that aremaking theatrical history.
_MADAME X._ By Alexandra Bisson and J. W. McConaughy. Illustrated withscenes from the play.
A beautiful Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would notforgive an error of her youth. Her love for her son is the great finalinfluence in her career. A tremendous dramatic success.
_THE GARDEN OF ALLAH._ By Robert Hichens.
An unconventional English woman and an inscrutable stranger meet andlove in an oasis of the Sahara. Staged this season with magnificent castand gorgeous properties.
_THE PRINCE OF INDIA._ By Lew. Wallace.
A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinarypower the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with thewarm underglow of an Oriental romance. As a play it is a great dramaticspectacle.
_TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY._ By Grace Miller White. Illust. by HowardChandler Christy.
A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell Universitystudent, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives ofthose about her. The dramatic version is one of the sensations of theseason.
_YOUNG WALLINGFORD._ By George Randolph Chester. Illust. by F. R. Grugerand Henry Raleigh.
A series of clever swindles conducted by a cheerful young man, each ofwhich is just on the safe side of a State's prison offence. As"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," it is probably the most amusing expose ofmoney manipulation ever seen on the stage.
_THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY._ By P.G. Wodehouse. Illustrations by Will Grefe.
Social and club life in London and New York, an amateur burglaryadventure and a love story. Dramatized under the title of "A Gentlemanof Leisure," it furnishes hours of laughter to the play-goers.
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B.M. BOWER'S NOVELSThrilling Western Romances
Large 12 mos. Handsomely bound in cloth. Illustrated
_CHIP, OF THE FLYING U_
A breezy wholesome tale, wherein the love affairs of Chip and DellaWhitman are charmingly and humorously told. Chip's jealousy of Dr. CecilGrantham, who turns out to be a big, blue eyed young woman is veryamusing. A clever realistic story of the American Cow-puncher.
_THE HAPPY FAMILY_
A lively and amusing story, dealing with the adventures of eighteenjovial, big hearted Montana cowboys. Foremost amongst them, we findAnanias Green, known as Andy, whose imaginative powers cause many livelyand exciting adventures.
_HER PRAIRIE KNIGHT_
A realistic story of the plains, describing a gay party of Easternerswho exchange a cottage at Newport for the rough homeliness of a Montanaranch-house. The merry-hearted cowboys, the fascinating Beatrice, andthe effusive Sir Redmond, become living, breathing personalities.
_THE RANGE DWELLERS_
Here are everyday, genuine cowboys, just as they really exist. Spiritedaction, a range feud between two families, and a Romeo and Julietcourtship make this a bright, jolly, entertaining story, without a dullpage.
_THE LURE OF DIM TRAILS_
A vivid portrayal of the experience of an Eastern author, among thecowboys of the West, in search of "local color" for a new novel. "Bud"Thurston learns many a lesson while following "the lure of the dimtrails" but the hardest, and probably the most welcome, is that of love.
_THE LONESOME TRAIL_
"Weary" Davidson leaves the ranch for Portland, where conventional citylife palls on him. A little branch of sage brush, pungent with theatmosphere of the prairie, and the recollection of a pair of large browneyes soon compel his return. A wholesome love story.
_THE LONG SHADOW_
A vigorous Western story, sparkling with the free, outdoor, life of amountain ranch. Its scenes shift rapidly and its actors play the game oflife fearlessly and like men. It is a fine love story from start tofinish.
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