Word: coryton
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Thirteen years ago If Winter Comes (by Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson- not to be confused with Ray Coryton Hutchinson-made many a reader weep. The Unforgotten Prisoner should do likewise, but the tears will be of a better quality. Author Hutchinson has turned the difficult trick of writing a realistic modern romance, a contemporary story of strong but unmawkish sentiment, a poignantly sympathetic study of English and German victims of a war that did not make democracy safe...
...Author. Ray Coryton Hutchinson's first novel (The Answering Glory) made little impression on England. The Unforgotten Prisoner, his second, was chosen by the English Book Society. Twenty-seven-year-old Author Hutchinson has a job with the English advertising firm of J. & B. Colman, leans away from London literati. Before that he was an Oxonian but no esthete, no scholar. Though Author Hutchinson is no old soldier (he was too young to fight in the World War), his deeply-felt picture of post-War chaos will be classed with Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back...
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