The Gate of Horn
Dix, Beulah Marie
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Add to basketSold by Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketDix, Beulah Marie. The Gate of Horn. New York: Duffield & Company, 1912. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-329 [330: blank]. Original pictorial beige cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark brown. Some very light scuffing to dye on front cover, else a nearly fine copy. #1972. $75. Dix, raised in Massachusetts and educated at Radcliffe, was a prolific author of commercial fiction and Hollywood scripts. Aside from a 1915 play, inspired by the war, set in the afterlife, this appears to be the only work of hers that delves into the fantastic. Her heroine, a tomboy with an imaginary playmate, is fascinated by dreams from her childhood that continue on into adult life, and they play a major, recurring role in this story. The novel's title refers to the distinction in classical civilization between prophetic dreams, reaching the dreamer through "the gate of horn," and merely ornamental ones that arrive through "the gate of ivory." Much of the action takes place in Cornwall. The author's style is lackluster, but readers who wade through it will encounter one of the few books from this period in which dreams are used not incidentally as a plot device or atmospheric spice but centrally and thematically. Bleiler (1978), p. 61. Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925, D-403.
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