Eyes Of The World, The by Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944) LibriVox
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The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views as the false world of artists, writers, critics, and their wealthy patrons. Two of the main characters are the famous author, Conrad LaGrange and Aaron King, an aspiring artist. LaGrange regretfully describes his writings as “filthy stories in good English” and feels he has sold his soul to become successful. While in California, recovering from a physical breakdown, he befriends Aaron King whose mother he knew when he was a boy. Lagrange serves as counselor to the young man, for he knows the pitfalls of success from his own experience. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
Customer Reviews
My Favorite HBW Novel
A beautiful travelogue through the San Gorgonio Wilderness and a sharp commentary on shallow, self-centered and superficial society that is, for being published in 1914, eerily prescient of modern times and the filters we use to be seen as we want to be seen, not as who we truly are “in the eyes of the world.”