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J.K. Huysmans •ï¿½9 Books
Down There: A Study in Satanism (1891)
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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    Fiction Chronicle (3 Reviews)
    Robert Phelps
    What Is a Good Novel?
    1. Down There: A Study in Satanism by Joris-Karl Huysmans
    2. The Hard Blue Sky by Shirley Ann Grau
    3. Light in Silence by Claude F. Koch
    National Review, June 28, 1958, pp. 40-41
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    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (72 Reviews)
    Prize Stories of 1923,
    1. Prize Stories of 1923
    2. Siege by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    3. These Charming People by Michael Arlen
    4. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
    5. Rapture by Richmond Brooks Barrett
    6. Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
    7. Visible and Invisible by E.F. Benson
    8. King Tommy by George A. Birmingham
    9. Mince Collop Close by George Blake
    10. The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield
    11. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
    12. Bright Lights by Robert Orr Chipperfield
    13. The Dear Pretender by Alice Ross Colver
    14. The Street of Many Arches by Joan Conquest and Gwen Lally
    15. The Rover by Joseph Conrad
    16. The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood
    17. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
    18. Triumph by Helen Marion Edginton
    19. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
    20. So Big by Edna Ferber
    21. Prancing Nigger by Ronald Firbank
    22. Guilt by Henry James Forman
    23. Gerald Cranston's Lady by Gilbert Frankau
    24. Stories from "The Midland" by John T. Frederick
    25. Heirs Apparent by Philip Gibbs
    26. Six Days by Elinor Glyn
    27. Seacoast of Bohemia by Louis Golding
    28. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
    29. Without Gloves by James B. Hendryx
    30. The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
    31. Mother of Gold by Emerson Hough
    32. Lummox by Fannie Hurst
    33. Down There: A Study in Satanism by Joris-Karl Huysmans
    34. The Pitiful Wife by Storm Jameson
    35. Christopher Columbus by Johannes V. Jensen
    36. Blue Blood by Owen Johnson
    37. The Lady of Pentlands by Elizabeth Jordan
    38. The Steadfast Heart by Clarence Budington Kelland
    39. The Happy Isles by Basil King
    40. Never the Twain Shall Meet by Peter B. Kyne
    41. Doomsland by Shane Leslie
    42. Doctor Nye of North Ostable by Joseph C. Lincoln
    43. John-no-Brawn by George Looms
    44. Here Comes the Sun! by Emilie Loring
    45. Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
    46. The Mystery Woman by Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry
    47. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    48. Hazard by Nancy Barr Mavity
    49. Vindication by Stephen McKenna
    50. Bull-Dog Drummond's Third Round by Herman Cyril McNeile
    51. Half Gods by Lynn Montross
    52. Bread by Charles G. Norris
    53. Butterfly by Kathleen Norris
    54. The Best Short Stories of 1923 by Edward J. O'Brien
    55. The Honourable Jim by Emmuska Orczy
    56. Old Misery by Hugh Pendexter
    57. Easy by Nina Wilcox Putnam
    58. Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
    59. The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair
    60. A Cure of Souls by May Sinclair
    61. Mrs. Phelps' Husband by Adriana Spadoni
    62. Coffins for Two by Vincent Starrett
    63. Empty Hands by Arthur Stringer
    64. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    65. The Education of Peter by John Wiley
    66. I, the King by Wayland Wells Williams
    67. Oh, Doctor! by Harry Leon Wilson
    68. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    69. Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
    70. A Poet's Youth by Margaret L. Woods
    71. The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright
    72. Ann's an Idiot by Pamela Wynne
    The Bookman, May 1924, pp. 335-337