SOURCE: “What Is Dirt?” in The Bookman, November, 1929, pp. 258-62.
In the following essay, Herrick raises questions about the propriety of certain frank sexual references in A Farewell to Arms, comparing them unfavorably with similarly explicit passages in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.
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