Word: book-of-the-month
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...forth in rapid, competent, factual narrative. Author Allen has "wondered whether some readers might not be interested and perhaps amused to find events and circumstances which they remember well-which seem to have happened only yesterday-woven into a pattern which at least masquerades as history." The Book-of-the-Month Club has answered his question by choosing Only Yesterday for their December book...
...position he liked so much he decided to stay one. Revolution in Austria made him change his mind: he was glad to pick up odd jobs. Newspaper work for the Frankfurter Zeitung gave him leisure to write books. He has written eight: Job is his first bestseller. Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) did the translation; the Book-of-the-Month Club chose it for November...
...nation." Big-eared, big-eyed, with professorial pince-nez, a clipped mustache over unprofessorially thick lips, James Truslow Adams looks young (he is 53) to be the author of so many fat and respectable books of history. In 1921 Founding of New England won him the Pulitzer Prize. Other books: Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic, Jeffersonian Principles, Hamiltonian Principles. Book-of-the-Month Club judges had no difficulty in making The Epic of America their unanimous selection for October...
Susan Spray is one of the two September choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The other: S. S. San Pedro (TIME...
...Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so successfully that she becomes famed...