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Mantrap (1926)
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Published Reviews
  1. [+]
    Lewis as Romantic (Review)
    Ernest Sutherland Bates
    Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    The Saturday Review, June 26, 1926, p. 887
  2. [+]
    Babbitt Returns to Nature (Review)
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    The Nation, June 16, 1926, p. 672
  3. [+]
    Poems (Review)
    Edwin Clark
    Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    Commonweal, July 21, 1926, p. 290
  4. The Book Table
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    Is It a Literary Sin to Please Readers? (3 Reviews)
    R.D. Townsend
    Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    2. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    3. Hill-Billy by Rose Wilder Lane
    The Outlook, June 16, 1926, p. 256
  5. [+]
    Recent Fiction (5 Reviews)
    Sorrell and Son, by Warwick Deeping
    1. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    2. Winter Wheat by Almey St. John Adcock
    3. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    4. Hill-Billy by Rose Wilder Lane
    5. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    The New Republic, August 4, 1926, pp. 316-317
  6. [+]
    Fiction (6 Reviews)
    H.L. Mencken
    The Silver Stallion, by James B. Cabell
    1. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    2. Count Bruga by Ben Hecht
    3. Roundabout by Nancy Hoyt
    4. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    5. Teeftallow by T.S. Stribling
    6. Show Business by Thyra Samter Winslow
    The American Mercury, August 1926, pp. 509-510
  7. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (50 Reviews)
    Juliet Is Twenty, by Jane Abbott
    1. Juliet Is Twenty by Jane Abbott
    2. Overheard by Ruby M. Ayres
    3. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    4. Walls of Glass by Larry Barretto
    5. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    6. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    7. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    8. The Incredulity of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
    9. Prose and Cons by Irvin S. Cobb
    10. The Tents of Jacob by Hyman Cohen
    11. They Had to See Paris by Homer Croy
    12. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    13. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    14. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    15. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
    16. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    17. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    18. The High Adventure by Jeffery Farnol
    19. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    20. Marchester Royal by J.S. Fletcher
    21. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    22. Masterson by Gilbert Frankau
    23. The Red Confessor by Nathan Gallizier
    24. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    25. The Unchanging Quest by Philip Gibbs
    26. Glass Houses by Eleanor Gizycka
    27. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
    28. Richard, Myrtle and I by Stephen Hudson
    29. The Old Home Town by Rupert Hughes
    30. Three Kingdoms by Storm Jameson
    31. Tom Fool by F. Tennyson Jesse
    32. The Great Valley by Mary Johnston
    33. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    34. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    35. The Wrong Letter by Walter S. Masterman
    36. Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley
    37. Pig Iron by Charles G. Norris
    38. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    39. Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    40. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    41. The Red Ledger by Frank L. Packard
    42. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
    43. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    44. The Fulfilment of Daphne Bruno by Ernest Raymond
    45. The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
    46. Teeftallow by T.S. Stribling
    47. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    48. King of Dreams by G.R. Warmington
    49. The Wondering Moon by George Weston
    50. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    The Bookman, September 1926, pp. 89-90
  8. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (72 Reviews)
    The Rim of the Prairie, by Bess Streeter Aldrich
    1. The Rim of the Prairie by Bess Streeter Aldrich
    2. A Brazilian Tenement by Aluizio Azevedo
    3. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    4. Cat's Cradle by Maurice Baring
    5. The Breeze in the Moonlight by George Soulie de Morant
    6. Spanish Faith by Francis R. Bellamy
    7. Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings by Mary Butts
    8. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    9. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    10. Mary Christmas by Mary Ellen Chase
    11. Dusk of Day by Catherine Clark
    12. The Sunken Garden by Nathalia Crane
    13. The Unknown Goddess by Ruth Cross
    14. When the Fight Begins by Holman Day
    15. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    16. The Connoisseur, and Other Stories by Walter de la Mare
    17. Delight by Mazo de la Roche
    18. Love in Greenwich Village by Floyd Dell
    19. The Land of Mist by Arthur Conan Doyle
    20. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    21. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    22. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    23. The High Adventure by Jeffery Farnol
    24. Masterson by Gilbert Frankau
    25. Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    26. The Unchanging Quest by Philip Gibbs
    27. Glass Houses by Eleanor Gizycka
    28. Heat by Isa Glenn
    29. The Crater by Robert Gore-Browne
    30. Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall
    31. Honk! by Doris F. Halman
    32. His Majesty the King by Cosmo Hamilton
    33. Count Bruga by Ben Hecht
    34. Chimes by Robert Herrick
    35. A New Name by Grace Livingston Hill
    36. Gun Gospel by W.D. Hoffman
    37. Roundabout by Nancy Hoyt
    38. Two or Three Graces by Aldous Huxley
    39. Three Kingdoms by Storm Jameson
    40. The Great Valley by Mary Johnston
    41. Whelp of the Winds by Rufus King
    42. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    43. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    44. Flecker's Magic by Norman H. Matson
    45. The Smoking Leg, and Other Stories by John Metcalfe
    46. Hearts of Hickory by John Trotwood Moore
    47. Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley
    48. Pig Iron by Charles G. Norris
    49. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    50. At Top of Tobin by Stanley Olmsted
    51. The Golden Beast by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    52. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    53. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
    54. The Windy Hill by Jennings Perry
    55. The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
    56. The Queerness of Celia by Amelia Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy
    57. The Housemaid by Naomi Royde-Smith
    58. The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini
    59. Beatrice by Arthur Schnitzler
    60. The Red Gods Call by C.E. Scoggins
    61. The Trail of Glory by Leroy Scott
    62. The Nest by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
    63. Shepherd Easton's Daughter by Mary J.H. Skrine
    64. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    65. The Blind Goddess by Arthur Train
    66. Jorgensen by Tristram Tupper
    67. One Little Man by Christopher Ward
    68. Oberlin's Three Stages by Jakob Wassermann
    69. Here and Beyond by Edith Wharton
    70. Black Incense by Alice Muriel Livingston Williamson
    71. Gypsy Down the Lane by Thames Williamson
    72. The Vengeance of Hurricane Williams by Gordon Young
    The Bookman, July 1926, pp. 591-593
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    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (76 Reviews)
    The Crooked Lip, by Herbert Adams
    1. The Crooked Lip by Herbert Adams
    2. The Ninth Thermidor by Mark A. Aldanov
    3. The Cutters by Bess Streeter Aldrich
    4. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    5. The Lord of Labraz by Pio Baroja
    6. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    7. Padlocked by Rex Beach
    8. Susan Shane by Roger Burlingame
    9. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    10. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    11. Her Son's Wife by Dorothy Canfield
    12. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    13. Listen, Moon! by Leonard Cline
    14. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    15. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    16. An Old Man's Folly by Floyd Dell
    17. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    18. The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany
    19. The Testament of Dominic Burleigh by Godfrey Elton
    20. Red Earth by Jane England
    21. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    22. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    23. The High Adventure by Jeffery Farnol
    24. Hot Saturday by Harvey Fergusson
    25. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    26. Ways of Escape by Noel Forrest
    27. Masterson by Gilbert Frankau
    28. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    29. Labels by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    30. The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow
    31. Code of Men by Homer King Gordon
    32. The Desert Thoroughbred by Jackson Gregory
    33. The Beckoning Glory by May Emery Hall
    34. Tampico by Joseph Hergesheimer
    35. The Unearthly by Robert S. Hichens
    36. The Golden Dancer by Cyril Hume
    37. Mannequin by Fannie Hurst
    38. The Great Valley by Mary Johnston
    39. The Understanding Heart by Peter B. Kyne
    40. Martha and Mary by J. Anker Larsen
    41. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    42. The Leper Ship by Isadore Lhevinne
    43. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    44. Fairy Gold by Compton Mackenzie
    45. The Loom of the Fool by Austin Macleod
    46. The Stooping Venus by Bruce Marshall
    47. Fraternity Row by Lynn Montross and Lois Montross
    48. The Glory of Egypt by Louis Moresby
    49. Pagan Mother by Arthur Mortimer
    50. Pig Iron by Charles G. Norris
    51. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    52. Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    53. The Celestial City by Baroness Orczy
    54. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    55. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
    56. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    57. From Nine to Nine by Leo Perutz
    58. Circe's Island, and The Girl and the Faun by Eden Phillpotts
    59. The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke W. Pickthall
    60. Caleb Peaslee by Frank K. Rich
    61. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    62. The Black Glove by J.G. Sarasin
    63. The Sun Woman by James Willard Schultz
    64. The Laughing Heart by Beatrice Sheepshanks
    65. Far End by May Sinclair
    66. Brawnyman by James Stevens
    67. Teeftallow by T.S. Stribling
    68. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    69. The Club of Masks by Allen Upward
    70. Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
    71. The Big House by Mildred Wasson
    72. Devices and Desires by Vera Wheatley
    73. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    74. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    75. The Mad Busman, and Other Stories by I.A.R. Wylie
    76. But in Our Lives by Francis Younghusband
    The Bookman, October 1926, pp. 219-221
  10. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (93 Reviews)
    The Veil of Glamour, by Clive Arden
    1. The Veil of Glamour by Clive Arden
    2. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    3. The Women of the Family by Margaret Culkin Banning
    4. Walls of Glass by Larry Barretto
    5. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    6. The Detective's Holiday by Charles Barry
    7. Her Mother's Daughter by Nalbro Bartley
    8. Padlocked by Rex Beach
    9. The Green Lacquer Pavilion by Helen Beauclerk
    10. Petenera's Daughter by Henry Bellamann
    11. Short Turns by Barry Benefield
    12. Lord Raingo by Arnold Bennett
    13. Almost Pagan by J.D. Beresford
    14. The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
    15. Sinister House by Charles G. Booth
    16. Mistress Nell Gwyn by Marjorie Bowen
    17. That Last Infirmity by Charles Brackett
    18. Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
    19. Tobey's First Case by Clara Louise Burnham
    20. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    21. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    22. The Man They Hanged by Robert W. Chambers
    23. The Lunatic in Charge by J. Storer Clouston
    24. Oklahoma by Courtney Ryley Cooper
    25. The Comedians by Louis Couperus
    26. The Beloved Rajah by A. Elsie Rundall Craig
    27. Dread Dwelling by Richmal Crompton
    28. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    29. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    30. My Son John by E.B. Dewing
    31. Less Than Kin by Charles Caldwell Dobie
    32. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    33. Our Doctors by Maurice Duplay
    34. Styrbiorn the Strong by E.R. Eddison
    35. Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim
    36. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    37. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    38. Summer Bachelors by Warner Fabian
    39. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    40. Daniel Quayne by J.S. Fletcher
    41. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    42. I Want to Be a Lady by Maximilian Foster
    43. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    44. Trail-Makers of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
    45. The West Wind by Crosbie Garstin
    46. Portia Marries by Jeannette Phillips Gibbs
    47. She Shall Have Music by Alyse Gregory
    48. Hilda Ware by L. Allen Harker
    49. The Triumphant Rider by Frances Forbes-Robertson Harrod
    50. Leif the Lucky by Clara Sharpe Hough
    51. Mannequin by Fannie Hurst
    52. The Blood of Kings by Reginald Wright Kauffman
    53. The Understanding Heart by Peter B. Kyne
    54. Tin Wedding by Margaret Leech
    55. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    56. The Big Mogul by Joseph C. Lincoln
    57. Perella by William J. Locke
    58. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    59. The Tenderfoots by Francis Lynde
    60. Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
    61. The Fortunes of Hugo by Denis Mackail
    62. The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham
    63. The Entertaining Angel by Samuel Merwin
    64. The Dancer and the Friar by Eugene Metour
    65. Wayfarer by Kathleen Millay
    66. Cordelia Chantrell by Meade Minnigerode
    67. The Devil's Guard by Talbot Mundy
    68. Chevrons by Leonard H. Nason
    69. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    70. Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    71. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    72. Jig-Saw by Eden Phillpotts
    73. White Water by Robert E. Pinkerton
    74. John of Oregon by Daniel A. Poling
    75. The Unquenchable Flame by Arthur J. Rees
    76. The Secret that Was Kept by Elizabeth Robins
    77. Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini
    78. The Master of the Microbe by Robert W. Service
    79. A Manifest Destiny by Arthur D. Howden Smith
    80. The Bad Samaritan by Justin Sturm
    81. Dry Martini by John Thomas
    82. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    83. Jarnegan by Jim Tully
    84. The Left Lady by Margaret Turnbull
    85. Toro of the Little People by Leo Walmsley
    86. Harmer John by Hugh Walpole
    87. A Touch of Earth by Lella Warren
    88. The Corbin Necklace by Henry Kitchell Webster
    89. The World of William Clissold by H.G. Wells
    90. Gallant Lady by Margaret Widdemer
    91. The Painted Room by Margaret Wilson
    92. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    93. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    The Bookman, November 1926, pp. 345-348