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''The Definite Object'' is a 1917
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by the British
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Jeffery Farnol. It was published in
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. A popular success in the United States, it was included on the '' Publisher Weekly's'' list of ten bestselling novels that year. Set in
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, it features a
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bored with his life who pretends to be a lowlife and falls in with a gang of criminals.


Adaptations

It has been adapted into films twice: a 1920 silent British film ''The Definite Object'' directed by Edgar J. Camiller and starring Ann Elliott and ''
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'' a 1924 silent American film produced by
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starring
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and Jacqueline Logan.Goble p.151


References


Bibliography

* Bryan, Pat. ''Farnol: The Man Who Wrote Best-Sellers''. 2002. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Speirs, Arlene Louise. ''Best-selling American Fiction in the War Years, 1914-1918''. University of Iowa, 1942. * Vinson, James. ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''. Macmillan, 1982. 1917 British novels Novels set in New York City British crime novels British romance novels Novels by Jeffery Farnol British novels adapted into films Sampson Low books Little, Brown and Company books {{1910s-novel-stub