“... been temporarily altered to ‘wholesome’ by the reactionary president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler.) Publishers who were ready to pay for both book and serial rights also expected a certain kind of product; and even as they sought to market Wharton as a ‘classic’, they worried that she was too grim or out of touch for their ...”

“... died of dysentery’ jingle from the classic computer game The Oregon Trail whenever it happened. Nicholas Gaskill, in his otherwise excellent introduction to the Everyman’s Library edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop, leaves it at this: ‘Cather’s critics and biographers have long speculated about the nature of her relationship with Lewis, with ...”