Best Selling Books by Henry Morton ROBINSON

An “absorbing . . . magnificent” novel about an ordinary Irish Catholic man who ascends the church hierarchy to become Cardinal in the early twentieth century. (Boston Herald) A selection of the Literary Guild, The Cardinal was published in more than a dozen languages and sold over two million copies. Later made into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Huston, the book tells a story that captured the nation''s attention: a working-class American''s rise to become a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The daily trials and triumphs of Stephen Fermoyle, from the working-class suburbs of Boston, drive him to become first a parish priest, then secretary to a cardinal, later a bishop, and finally a wearer of the Red Hat. An essential work of American fiction that remains even more relevant today. “Extraordinary . . . controversial . . . first rate storytelling and characterization that has enormous appeal.” –Kirkus Reviews

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce''s masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce''s "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book''s basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.

Saga of the Woodhull family of Cincinnati, by the author of The Cardinal.--Dust jacket.

Fair copy of poem, "Second wisdom" by Henry Morton Robinson; two quatrains, signed "with personal greetings to and remembrance of, Jerome Milkman."