The Red-Blood: A Novel

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Lacks scarce jacket. Front free endpaper removed, pasted clipping and ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper, front hinge weakening. 1923 Hard Cover. xi, 479 pp. "Red-blood" is American. The words have a special meaning in this country where, within an extraordinarily brief space of time, a nation has been hewn out of a savage continent. In this powerful novel by the author of "Zell," the central character is a red blood, a doer, a creator and builder. Illegitimately born in a backwoods village, without opportunities, but inspired with an indomitable will-to-power, he becomes involved with things on a big scale--on an almost inhumanely large scale. The story is one of singular strength and ruggedness, with a remarkable climax. "The Red-Blood," the story of a modern Frankenstein, is a real contribution to American literature.