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Sudden Tempation plot reviewed by Jack London

Sinclair Lewis's "Sudden Temptation" plot reviewed by Jack London, ca. 1910.

SUDDEN TEMPTATIONS. Young artist working in department store risists sudden temptation to return rich woman's purse. Morning troubles and climax of exasperation reached in the vulgar rich woman of the silk netter purse and the enquiry for the "classics --- Whistling Jimmy." Girl, plump/ of blue silk waist, arrives in dept. as tyre. The scene of the coll morning removal of the book counter covers. Man resists the second sudden temptation --- to steal more and the third, to flee from the intensely human relation with the blue silk waist lady. Thorn mit be made an Elbert Hubbard & masher & Mike & Badger & J.T. Cooper & Kobble a ??? of the arts.

The original of this item is located at Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, COLL MSS 10 Box 39.

1910

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Jack and Charmian London Correspondence and Papers, 1894-1953

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