UNCLE PEEL

by Irving Bacheller ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 17, 1933

Perhaps the time is ripe for a highly moral tale, pointing to the past decade as a period when the punishment fits the crime, and the time seems always ripe for finding the mote in one's neighbor's eye. To the reader of the old school who yearns for a moral lesson (and who has been saying ""I told you so"") this novel, so-called, will be nectar and ambrosia. It belongs to a school of writing that went out with the war, an outmoded fashion, that died legitimately. The author himself, in a foreword, confesses that his motive in writing the book is two-fold-to come out as champion of Florida and the part the state played in the land-bubble; and to point a warning finger at the extravagances of the 1920's and their dire consequences in the 1930's. He does it through a tale about a big frog in a small puddle, who - due to the wisdom of staying in the small puddle -becomes something of a wizard in the eyes of the financial world; and of his nephew whose wife was ruined by prosperity and whose daughter came back, eventually, to the small-town sweetheart. The publishers are backing this book with extensive advertising, so there is sure to be a healthy sale, at the start.

Pub Date: April 17, 1933

ISBN: 1419164937

Page Count: -

Publisher: Stokes

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1933

Categories: NONFICTION