Hervey Allen Welcome! You are encouraged to register with the site and login (for free). When you register, you support the site and your question history is saved.Book reviewer: the author of this book confirms that it was inspired by the plot of Anthony Adverse, the 1933 book by Hervey Allen, but maintains that the style of writing is unique. Orpheo, the author's main character, is an orphan, like the lead character of the earlier novel, but Orpheo's dialogue is of a style that would never been heard in the 1930s. The considerations given best serve as part of an argument that modern readers would find it hard to tolerate certain characteristics of a historically accurate remake of a novel from the 1930s the character Orpheo is essentially similar to the lead character of Anthony Adverse the style of writing fiction has not changed much between the 1933 and the time of the book inspired by Anthony Adverse, if these two works are any evidence the similarities between the plot events concerning Orpheo and those concerning the lead character of Anthony Adverse do not diminish the stylistic differences between the two books describing those characters Hervey Allen must have known and influenced the author of the later book Review Answer