"If the novel is a form of imaginative art, it cannot be at the same time a vivid and brilliant form of journalism. Out of the teeming, gleaming stream of the present it must select the eternal material of art."
Editions
First Edition
Published by Alfred A. Knopf on November 23, 1936.
First English Edition
Published by Cassell and Company Limited in December 1936.
Autograph Edition
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1938 in a volume with Obscure Destinies.
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