The greater glory. A story of high life

by MAARTENS, MAARTEN [pseudonym of SCHWARTZ, JOZUA MARIUS WILLEM VAN DER POORTEN]

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New York: D. Appleton & Co. ,. Very Good. 1894. Hard Cover. XII,472 pages, decorated cloth, very good. Poorten-Schwartz's other works included Harmen Pols; Brothers all - more stories of Dutch peasant life; The healers; My Lady Nobody, a novel; and An old maid's love - A Dutch tale told in English. Friend of Thomas Hardy and author of the first Dutch detective story, his works became popular in Britain and the United States and he was published extensively in both countries. From A Comparative Evaluation of Selected Prose by Maarten Maartens by Hendrik Breuls, M.A.: "The conservative Review of Reviews selected The Greater Glory as its "book of the month", praising Maartens as a realist who dared to go against the grain of the current fashion in literature that was firmly in the clutches of naturalism: "Maarten Maartens shows society as it is, with men and women, good, bad and different. He is an artist, but a Christian one, who seeks to extract from things as they are not that which is impure and enervating, but all that can ennoble and invigorate." Osbert Burdett, the English critic who wrote the only lengthy and objective general essay on the works of Maartens, observed about The Greater Glory: Once its various opening strands have become woven into a central narrative, The Greater Glory is a better story than God's Fool [...]. In The Greater Glory, Maartens reached his maturity. It is the meeting point of his early and ripest work. .

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