Kitty (novel)

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Kitty
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First edition (US)
Author Warwick Deeping
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Cassell (UK)
Knopf (US)
Publication date
1927
Media typePrint

Kitty is a 1927 novel by the British writer Warwick Deeping. Like his earlier Sorrell and Son it was a bestseller. [1]

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Adaptation

In 1929 it was turned into a film Kitty directed by Victor Saville. Shot partly as a silent and partly with sound it was one of the earliest British talkies to be released.

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References

  1. Grover p.140

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