Staggered by the sales figures, distinguished critics were reduced to assailing the patrons of bookstores for being far too eager to reach into their pocketsor, rather, their purses, since, it was recalled, most book buyers are womento pay the unheard-of price of three dollars for what Malcolm Cowley, efficiently summing up both book and audience, characterized as an entertainment that will carry them through the idle moments for a whole fortnight. One of the striking things about initial critical reactions to Mitchells work, for and against, was their absolute accord over what it offeredpowerful storytellingand what it lacked: literary style and originality
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By the second hour, it seemed to me that Pandora was real
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The idea took off and remains a major tradition