"'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away."

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American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.

— James Branch Cabell