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Sweepings (1926)
by Lester Cohen
The Story of the Pardways
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  1. [+]
    The Realism of Business (Review)
    Ernest Sutherland Bates
    Sweepings, by Lester Cohen
    1. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    The Saturday Review, December 4, 1926, p. 366
  2. [+]
    Recent Fiction (4 Reviews)
    Harmer John, by Hugh Walpole
    1. Harmer John by Hugh Walpole
    2. Styrbiorn the Strong by E.R. Eddison
    3. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    4. Blindness by Henry Green
    The New Republic, December 29, 1926, pp. 173-174
  3. [+]
    Certain Works of Fiction (6 Reviews)
    H.L. Mencken
    Tampico, by Joseph Hergesheimer
    1. Tampico by Joseph Hergesheimer
    2. The Keen Desire by Frank B. Elser
    3. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    4. Jarnegan by Jim Tully
    5. Iowa Interiors by Ruth Suckow
    6. Short Turns by Barry Benefield
    The American Mercury, November 1926, pp. 381-383
  4. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (71 Reviews)
    Revelry, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    1. Revelry by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    2. This Day's Madness by Adelaide Champneys
    3. Joykin by Michael Arabian
    4. Pa: The Head of the Family by Margaret Eliza Ashmun
    5. The Ghost Book by Cynthia Asquith
    6. Andy Brandt's Ark by Edna Bryner
    7. The Pendulum by Annie S. Swan
    8. The Delectable Mountains by M. Struthers Burt
    9. The Silver Cord by George Agnew Chamberlain
    10. Falling Seeds by Elisabeth Cobb Chapman
    11. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    12. The Outer Gate by Octavus Roy Cohen
    13. Speak to the Earth by Sarah Comstock
    14. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    15. Doomsday by Warwick Deeping
    16. I'll Have a Fine Funeral by Pierre de la Maziere
    17. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    18. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    19. Galahad by John Erskine
    20. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    21. Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser
    22. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    23. Vivian by H.L. Gates
    24. The Golden Centipede by Louise Gerard
    25. Labels by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    26. The Young Anarchy by Philip Gibbs
    27. The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow
    28. Lucky Numbers by Montague Glass
    29. Under the Tonto Rim by Zane Grey
    30. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    31. Ironical Tales by Laurence Housman
    32. The Islanders by Helen R. Hull
    33. Young in the "Nineties" by Una Hunt
    34. Song of Life by Fannie Hurst
    35. The Victory Murders by Foster Johns
    36. The Big Mogul by Joseph C. Lincoln
    37. Lord of Himself by Percy Marks
    38. Among Those Present by Lois Montross
    39. Forever Free by Honore Willsie Morrow
    40. A Wreath of Cloud by Arthur Waley and Lady Murasaki
    41. Chevrons by Leonard H. Nason
    42. The Hard-Boiled Virgin by Frances Newman
    43. Crazy Pavements by Beverley Nichols
    44. Break o' Day by Con O'Leary
    45. The Dark Dawn by Martha Ostenso
    46. Zero by H. Collinson Owen
    47. Tomorrow Morning by Anne Parrish
    48. The Marriage Bed by Ernest Pascal
    49. The Marquis de Bolibar by Leo Perutz
    50. Black April by Julia Peterkin
    51. The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter
    52. Adam in Moonshine by J.B. Priestley
    53. Cherry Square by Grace S. Richmond
    54. Deep Enough by Malcolm Ross
    55. The Old Countess by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)
    56. Half-Gods by Murray Sheehan
    57. The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington
    58. One Crystal and a Mother by Ellen Du Pois Taylor
    59. The Admiral and Others by Peggy Temple
    60. Wild Orchard by Dan Totheroh
    61. Sarati the Terrible by Jean Vignaud
    62. Harmer John by Hugh Walpole
    63. Never Give All by Maude Radford Warren
    64. Passing the Love of Women by Joseph White
    65. Latterday Symphony by Romer Wilson
    66. Divots by P.G. Wodehouse
    67. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    68. Driftwood Spars by Percival Christopher Wren
    69. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    70. The Orphan Angel by Elinor Wylie
    71. Love Is Enough by Francis Brett Young
    The Bookman, May 1927, pp. 334-336
  5. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (96 Reviews)
    A Wild Goose of Limerick, by Achmed Abdullah
    1. A Wild Goose of Limerick by Achmed Abdullah
    2. The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen
    3. Desert: A Legend by Martin D. Armstrong
    4. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    5. Three Women by Faith Baldwin
    6. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    7. The Two Sisters by H.E. Bates
    8. Padlocked by Rex Beach
    9. Mezzanine by E.F. Benson
    10. Singing Winds by Konrad Bercovici
    11. Highroads of Peril by Alfred H. Bill
    12. Return to Bondage by Barbara Blackburn
    13. Ann Lee's, and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
    14. The Sun in Splendour by Thomas Burke
    15. The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    16. Her Son's Wife by Dorothy Canfield
    17. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
    18. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    19. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    20. Ghost House by Foxhall Daingerfield
    21. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    22. A Brittle Heaven by Babette Deutsch
    23. The Proper Place by O. Douglas
    24. Galahad by John Erskine
    25. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    26. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    27. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    28. Mad Rapture by Elizabeth Irons Folsom
    29. Antennae by Hulbert Footner
    30. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    31. Ways of Escape by Noel Forrest
    32. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    33. The Other Door by A Gentleman With A Duster
    34. Labels by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    35. The Elder Brother by Anthony Gibbs
    36. The Flame of Courage by George Gibbs
    37. The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow
    38. Backyard by Gloria Goddard
    39. Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
    40. The Cromer Street Chronicles by Norman Proctor Greig
    41. Marcabrun by Ramon Guthrie
    42. Half a Sovereign by Ian Hay
    43. Angel by DuBose Heyward
    44. False Face by Sydney Horler
    45. Mannequin by Fannie Hurst
    46. Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling
    47. The Understanding Heart by Peter B. Kyne
    48. White Falcon by Harold Lamb
    49. The Big Mogul by Joseph C. Lincoln
    50. Perella by William J. Locke
    51. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    52. The Black Angels by Maud Hart Lovelace
    53. The Quiet Lady by Agnes Mure Mackenzie
    54. The Allbrights by Archibald Marshall
    55. Mrs. Socrates by Fritz Mauthner
    56. The Price of Wisdom by Marjorie Barkley McClure
    57. Kindling and Ashes by George Barr McCutcheon
    58. Saviours of Society by Stephen McKenna
    59. The Colfax Book-Plate by Agnes Miller
    60. It Happened in Peking by Louise Jordan Miln
    61. Janet Thurso by Alexander Moray
    62. Indian Tales and Others by John G. Neihardt
    63. Hildegarde by Kathleen Norris
    64. The Spite of Heaven by Oliver Onions
    65. Harvey Garrard's Crime by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    66. Black Jack Davy by John M. Oskison
    67. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    68. Stepchild of the Moon by Fulton Oursler
    69. A Daughter of Pan by Cornelia Stratton Parker
    70. Smith Everlasting by Dillwyn Parrish
    71. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    72. With Eastern Eyes by Ernest Poole
    73. Tish Plays the Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart
    74. Little Mrs. Manington by Cecil Roberts
    75. Devil-May-Care by Arthur Somers Roche
    76. The Pearl Thief by Berta Ruck
    77. Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini
    78. None But the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler
    79. Sabbatical Year by George Shively
    80. Before the Bombardment by Osbert Sitwell
    81. Snow and Steel by Girolamo Sommi-Picenardi
    82. The Bright Face of Danger by Clifford M. Sublette
    83. Iowa Interiors by Ruth Suckow
    84. Summer Storm by Frank Swinnerton
    85. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    86. Page Mr. Tutt by Arthur Train
    87. The Ninth Wave by Carl Van Doren
    88. Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
    89. Here Are Lovers by Hilda Vaughan
    90. Tropic Death by Eric Walrond
    91. The Red-Haired Girl by Carolyn Wells
    92. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    93. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    94. The Orphan Angel by Elinor Wylie
    95. Custody Children by Everett Young
    96. Heaven Trees by Stark Young
    The Bookman, December 1926, pp. 494-497
  6. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (99 Reviews)
    Georgian Stories, 1926,
    1. Georgian Stories, 1926
    2. Revelry by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    3. This Day's Madness by Adelaide Champneys
    4. Young Men in Love by Michael Arlen
    5. The Immortal Marriage by Gertrude Atherton
    6. The Empress Might-Have-Been by Octave Aubry
    7. The Baby Grand, and Other Stories by Stacy Aumonier
    8. Dawn by Irving Bacheller
    9. Daphne Adeane by Maurice Baring
    10. These Frantic Years by James Warner Bellah
    11. Honor Bound by Jack Bethea
    12. The Woman Who Stole Everything, and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
    13. Four O'Clock, and Other Stories by Mary Borden
    14. The Delectable Mountains by M. Struthers Burt
    15. The Behind Legs of the 'Orse, and Other Stories by Ellis Parker Butler
    16. Brother Saul by Donn Byrne
    17. Horizon by Robert Carse
    18. The Peat-Cutters by Alphonse de Chateaubriant
    19. The Return of Don Quixote by G.K. Chesterton
    20. The Mad Lover by Richard Edward Connell
    21. Shule Agra by Kathleen Coyle
    22. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    23. The New Poor by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman
    24. When Is Always? by Coningsby Dawson
    25. Doomsday by Warwick Deeping
    26. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    27. The Black Knight by Ethel M. Dell
    28. In Such a Night by Babette Deutsch
    29. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    30. The Best Continental Short Stories of 1926 by Richard Eaton
    31. Galahad by John Erskine
    32. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    33. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Hanns Heinz Ewers
    34. Mother Knows Best by Edna Ferber
    35. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    36. Love Lies Dreaming by C.S. Forester
    37. The Best Stories of Mary E. Wilkins by Mary Eleanor Wilkins
    38. Pretty Creatures by William A. Gerhardie
    39. The Young Anarchy by Philip Gibbs
    40. The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow
    41. Decadence by Maksim Gorky
    42. Under the Tonto Rim by Zane Grey
    43. Man's World by Charlotte F. Haldane
    44. The Canal Boat Fracas by Louise Closser Hale
    45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    46. The Restitution of the Bride, and Other Stories from the Chinese by E. Butts Howell
    47. Evelyn Grainger by George F. Hummel
    48. Children of Divorce by Owen Johnson
    49. Ann Decides by Robert Keable
    50. Red Love by Alexandra M. Kollontai
    51. Ulysse and the Sorcerers by Marius-Ary Leblond
    52. Painted Ponies by Alan LeMay
    53. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
    54. Roman Summer by Ludwig Lewisohn
    55. Stories Near and Far by William J. Locke
    56. We All Live Through It by Harold MacGrath
    57. Rogues and Vagabonds by Compton Mackenzie
    58. The Band Plays Dixie by Morris Markey
    59. Lord of Himself by Percy Marks
    60. The Lingering Faun by Mabel Wood Martin
    61. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
    62. The Case of Bevan Yorke by W.B. Maxwell
    63. Cockades by Meade Minnigerode
    64. The Bird of Fire by Maria Moravsky
    65. The Dark Fire by Elinor Mordaunt
    66. Forever Free by Honore Willsie Morrow
    67. The Spanish Farm Trilogy, 1914 to 1918 by R.H. Mottram
    68. Chevrons by Leonard H. Nason
    69. Three Lights from a Match by Leonard H. Nason
    70. The Hard-Boiled Virgin by Frances Newman
    71. The Sea Gull by Kathleen Norris
    72. The Interloper by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    73. Tomorrow Morning by Anne Parrish
    74. The Marriage Bed by Ernest Pascal
    75. Black April by Julia Peterkin
    76. Peacock House, and Other Mysteries by Eden Phillpotts
    77. The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter
    78. East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg
    79. The Somber Flame by Samuel Rogers
    80. Mother and Son by Romain Rolland
    81. Red Damask by Emanie N. Sachs
    82. A Free Soul by Adela Rogers St. Johns
    83. Migrations by Evelyn Scott
    84. The Allinghams by May Sinclair
    85. Intimate Acrobatics by Donald Stites Fairchild
    86. The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington
    87. High Winds by Arthur Train
    88. Starling by Christopher Ward
    89. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    90. Mr. Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
    91. The Triumph of Youth by Jacob Wassermann
    92. Philopena by Henry Kitchell Webster
    93. Back of Beyond by Stewart Edward White
    94. Immortal Longings by Ben Ames Williams
    95. The Ardent Flame by Frances Winwar
    96. Springboard by Robert Wolf
    97. The Eye of Lucifer by Frederic F. Van de Water
    98. Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
    99. The Crescent Moon by Francis Brett Young
    The Bookman, June 1927, pp. 461-464