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129:'s daughter. His parents decide to send him away to France and then Switzerland. In Switzerland, he sees a woman referred to only as "the Lady". The Lady is older, in her thirties. After several days of exchanging lustful glances, they actually meet. She invites him to her apartment, where they share a sexual relationship for three weeks. Eventually, Paul learns the Lady is actually the queen of a Russian dependency and her husband, the king, is abusive towards her. She disappears after the titular three weeks; Paul is upset and returns to England. Paul later discovers that the Lady has given birth to their son. With his father's assistance, he finds out the Lady's identity; however, before they can meet again, she is murdered by her husband. Paul is upset and spends the next five years wandering around from country to country, until he decides to make preparations to meet his son. 29: 702: 364:
recites the poem upon spotting a polar bear rug by the fire in a London club, of which he has just wangled membership (p. 125). To this, another member responds: "Who the hell is Elinor Glyn?" The Air Marshal replies: "Oh, just a name, you know, put in to make it rhyme." This was both a snub to
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Critical reception was negative in the United Kingdom and United States. The book was described as disjointed, "dull and stupid", "boring, vulgar and extremely silly". Critics also made personal attacks on Glyn, saying she was complacent, her writing immature, and she was "indifferent to her own
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Paul Verdayne, wealthy English nobleman in his early twenties, is caught embracing the
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shows a telephone operator reading the book on the job between calls.
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the Air Marshal and a literary snubbing of Glyn by Waugh.
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Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds
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When the novel was published in the United States by
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Elinor Glyn
Erotic romance
Gerald Duckworth
erotic romance
Elinor Glyn
parson
Duffield & Co.
Boston
Watch and Ward Society
in 1914
it
Perry N. Vekroff
Madlaine Traverse
George C. Pearce
Márton Garas
1924 version
Samuel Goldwyn
Alan Crosland
Conrad Nagel
Aileen Pringle
doggerel
Fred Evans
S. J. Perelman
The Family Secret
Seven Chances
The Shindig
Clarabelle Cow
Evelyn Waugh
Sword of Honour

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