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Black Oxen

Gertrude Atherton

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Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with artifice in this controversial pseudo-science fiction romance.
and stories and wallowed in them. The more insulting, the more ruthless, the more one-sided the disclosure of their irremediable faults and meannesses, the more voluptuous the pleasure. There had been reactions after the Civil War, but on a higher plane. The population had not been maculated by inferior races.

The young editors, critics, special writers were enchanted. This was Life! At last! Moreover, it was Democracy. These young and able men, having renounced their earlier socialism, their sense of humor recognizing its disharmony with high salaries and pleasant living, were hot for Democracy. Nothing paid like Democracy in this heaving world. The Democratic wave rose and roared. Symbolic was this violent eruption of small-town fiction, as realistic as the kitchen, as pessimistic as Wall Street. All virtue, all hope, all idealism, had gone out of the world. Romance, for that matter, never had existed and it was high time the stupid world was forcibly purged of its immemorial illusion. Life was and ever had been sordid, commonplace, ignoble, vulgar, immedicable; refinement was a cowardly veneer that was beneath any seeker after Truth, and Truth was all that mattered. Love was to laugh. Happiness was hysteria, and content the delusion of morons (a word now hotly racing "authentic"). As for those verbal criminals, "loyalty" and "patriotism"—fecit vomitare.

Their success was colossal.

Gora Dwight caught the crest of the wave and sold three hundred thousand copies of "Fools." She immediately signed a contract with one of the "woman's magazines" for the serial rights of her next novel for thirty thousand dollars, and received a corresponding advance from her publisher. Her short stories sold for two thousand dollars apiece, and her first novel was exhumed and had a heavy sale.

It was difficult to be pessimistic with a hundred thousand dollars in bonds and mort

Diana 02/01/2023
Fascinating "what if" romance that will be especially appreciated by those who love New York City. The story is set in the transition period from the post-WWI Gilded Age to the 1920's. I knocked it back a star because the author has some distasteful, if only glancingly referenced, fascist sentiments
Warren 04/11/2020
Gertrude Atherton may be known these days more for her horror and ghost stories, but her best seller was the racy and controversial science fiction romance "Black Oxen." Of all the Radium-Age scifi classics I have reviewed, this one perhaps best captures the spirit of the Twenties, complete with lat
Tam 12/12/2017
I've known about Gertrude Atherton for some time (since I was doing research on turn-of-the-century San Francisco and came across her name as one of the leading authors of the area) but I haven't had a chance to read any of her work until now. This book is, sadly, not set in San Francisco but I enjo
Jim 02/05/2017
A very unusual mixture of AGE OF INNOCENCE with the fantasy fiction of H.G. Wells.

Into New York society enters a young Austrian Countess who sparks interest in the upper class, and among the flapper-prone Sophisticates. Part of the attraction is the appeal of the European elite. But, it is more tha
Gail 07/29/2012
this is turning into a science fiction novel

Science fiction..political commentary

Interesting in that it is written in that period between the World Wars, when there was an economic depression and political upheavals not even guessed at in the offing. I would venture to guess that the suggestion of B

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