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So Red the Rose (novel)

1934 novel by Stark Young

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ130265721 ↗
Source-derived summary

So Red the Rose is a 1934 novel by American writer Stark Young about the American Civil War.

Reception

The book was on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “So Red the Rose (novel)” is 1934 novel by Stark Young. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rose, novel and Stark, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1934. For this dossier, Rose, novel and Stark is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1934 novel by Stark Young” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q130265721. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1934.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “So Red the Rose (novel)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow So Red the Rose (novel) primary sources, So Red the Rose (novel) archive and Rose research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “So Red the Rose (novel)”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “So Red the Rose (novel)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.