Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph Conrad, writes that he is "mostly interested in the insignificant. The more insignificant a person is in this whirlpool of industrialized and civilized society, the more important...
Unlike France's François Eugene Vidocq, who packed his memoirs with accounts of his love affairs and daring escapes and thus inspired Conan Doyle, Poe, Hugo, Balzac and Gaboriau, Superintendent Cornish seldom refers to his personal career and accomplishments, writes of plodding, methodical, routine work unlikely to fire any man of letters. Always conscious of the elaborate organization needed to collect the countless items of trivia used in building up a case, Cornish gives himself and other super-sleuths no more credit than plain constables or voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved...
...convention. Publishers Clarence Barren of the Wall Street Journal and John Bigelow of the New York Evening Post were members. Contemplation in a New Church church in London inspired Poet William Blake to write his "Songs of Innocence." In formal or spiritual fellowship Swedenborgians also claim Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Andrew Carnegie, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Helen Keller, Elbert Hubbard, Amelita Galli-Curci and Eddie Guest...
From this point on the worship of the franc dominates the book as it dominated the books of Balzac. Marlise gets an esthetic pleasure out of contemplating her swelling revenues. She cannot walk down a road of Pargny without reflecting that so much of her money is in such-and-such a field, or house, or shop, for she has become the fond owner of a grand assortment of mortgages. When Aime, the growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will...
...simply closes his textbooks at the close of his short journey on an unfinished story of life with its conflict, suffering, and struggle for happiness. The pages that we learn about today will still be there, but new pages in life's experience will be added day by day. Balzac and Longfellow and Bach and Michael Angelo--these will still be on life's pages long after the texts are closed; Roosevelt and Hitler and Doumergue, too, will have filled their niche. But the world moves on. The University Dally Kaneen...