Eva's apples : A story of jazz and jasper by William Alexander Gerhardie
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encounters with a volatile Russian émigré family: the irrepressible Mrs. Kerr and her children, the poised Zita, the captivating Eva (“Me-Too”), and the restless boy John. Dickin’s pages sketch comic and poignant episodes in Innsbruck and beyond—New Year revels, émigré hardships, flirtations, and a perilous mountain misadventure where, believing themselves doomed, he kisses Zita and Eva pointedly says “Me too,” before all are unexpectedly rescued. The story then shifts to further émigré struggles in Abbazia and Vienna—workhouses, odd jobs, nightclubs, and makeshift salons—while Ottercove, intrigued by the manuscript’s recognizable figures, offers to serialise it and astonishingly grants Dickin open credit. A final scene returns to London, where Eva has been waiting in a taxi for hours; reunited, she and Dickin exchange breathless kisses as his sudden good fortune and their unruly love collide. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 28014828 |
| Title | Eva's apples : A story of jazz and jasper |
| Original Publication | NEW YORK: Duffield and Company, 1928. |
| Note | First published in 1928, in London under title: Jazz and jasper, and in New York under title: Eva's apples. Republished in 1947 under title: My sinful earth, and in 1974 under title: Doom. |
| Credits | Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | End of the world -- Fiction |
| Subject | Novelists -- Fiction |
| Subject | Journalism -- Fiction |
| Subject | Publishers and publishing -- Fiction |
| Subject | Russians -- Europe, Western -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77377 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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