A fine portrayal of youthful, feckless enthusiasm and yearning for truth the dialogue gets rather fake at times for my taste a lamentable trait of later lewis, i m afraid as with kingsblood royal and his celebrated works of the 1920s, lewis is ahead of his time with his sober, skeptical view of american history and race relations if you revere. As timely as when it was first published in 1947, one need only open todays newspaper to see the same issues passionately being discussed between blacks and whites that we find in kingsblood royal, says charles johnson. Mantrap is sinclair lewiss 1925 novel of an effete eastern lawyers trip into the wilderness where he competes for the affection of the beautiful but bored city wife of a more competent backwoodsman. The first edition of the novel was published in 1925, and was written by sinclair lewis. Start reading kingsblood royal on your kindle in under a minute. When neil kingsblood a typical middleamerican banker with a comfortable life makes the shocking. Words with power being a second study of the bible and literature. Kingsblood royal is a satire depicting race relations, bias and attitudes in midwest american in the 1940s after wwii. Richard dickison added it apr 27, luneth moon rated it it was amazing jun 28, jj hitt marked it as toread jan 26, tori patton marked it as toread jan 26, it really helped me understand the relaxed.
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