Life — June 8, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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The masters of for- The « isiest way to peek into the hearts and eign fiction have enshrined themselves se- : the millions of mortals beyond the curely in the affections of readers who demand read the masterpieces of fiction which not a mere veneer but the truth about life. have b cn written by such creative literary artists. 1s De Maupassant, Balzac, Daudet, Gorki, ‘olstoi, Wells, Hugo and others. It is not or —it is charming. Foreign fiction by its acknowledged masters is never dull, never :.ushy, never stupidly conventional. Fict is of universal appeal in interpret- ing li Every person sees life as drama. The bic. vital steps of life are based on feeling. minds seas is We have gone to France, England, Italy, Rus- sia and other lands for masterpieces of fiction. We have had these immortal works carefully and completely translated and now offer them in 30 volumes—the only library of foreign fic- tion that is obtainable in this country at this time. 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