Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEATH OF A WORLD-Jules Remains- Knopf...
This week 5,000 devoted U. S. readers can get their latest installments of the world's longest continued story. The book is Jules Remains' Death Of A World, containing the 13th and 14th volumes of his multiple-volumed Men Of Good Will, a vast, panoramic affair including several hundred characters, laid largely in pre-War France, and now totaling 3,756 pages. Five years ago, when Author Remains published his first volume and boldly announced the scope and complexity of his project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought...
...Death Of A World, the faithful 5,000 get two installments somewhat above Author Romains' average. Men Of Good Will is not a straightforward narrative embracing many characters and telling a consecutive story. Its hero is modern society as a whole, so that characters are introduced who seem to have no connection with each other, drop out of sight and reappear according to no apparent plan. The first volume, beginning in Paris in 1908, introduced Quinette, a murderer, Gurau, a radical deputy, Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related...
...Death Of A World starts off on another tangent. Mionnet, a young priest who successfully saved a bishop from scandal in an earlier volume, is sent to Rome by Gurau and Poincare to spy on Cardinal Merry del Val, Papal Secretary of State who Gurau believes is intriguing with Germany. In Rome, Mionnet collects scandals about the Cardinal and is at the point of buying a blackmailer's documents when he is summoned to the Vatican to interview Merry del Val himself. There the plot breaks off, with Mionnet, like the hero of an old-fashioned movie serial, dangling...
...Death last year ended Edith Wharton's work on a novel which might have been her masterpiece. She had written 29 chapters of a book apparently planned to run to about 35 chapters. The story had reached its climax; the characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete...