Simon Called Peter

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Simon Called Peter is a novel by Robert Keable (1887–1927) [1] which was a best-seller in 1921.[2] The title is a reference to Simon Peter the apostle and first Pope of the Catholic Church.

The book was controversial at its introduction due to its sexual and religious content; it was made into a play by Jules Eckert Goodman and Edward Knoblock;[3] it had a short run in Chicago.[4] The novel was followed by a sequel, Recompense, published in 1924 [5] and made into a 1925 motion picture with the same title, directed by Harry Beaumont.[6]

This book is alluded to in The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator, reads a chapter and claims that "either it was terrible stuff or the whisky distorted things, because it didn't make any sense to me."[7]

References

  1. ↑ Time Magazine, Jan 2, 1928
  2. ↑ Great War Fiction by George Simmer
  3. ↑ Time Magazine, Aug. 18, 2004
  4. ↑ Internet Broadway Database
  5. ↑ Time April 21, 1924.
  6. ↑ Harry Beaumont Filmography
  7. ↑ The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Penguin. 2011

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