Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public Ledger (Philadelphia): "An epic of the border. ... It is the sort of 'history' that men will read...
...meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention, the Chinese convention, in the English tongue. It was meant to produce a certain effect of philosophy and at the same time ... a certain completed interest of fiction, of relation, of a short epic. It did all these things. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is worthy of its forerunner." The Author. Ernest Bramah is an Englishman who knows China and the Chinese as few foreigners of any nationality know them. He is known in the literary world for The Wallet of Kai Lung...
...first two of these plays, "The Farewell Curse" and "The Maharani of Arakan", were written by Rabindranath Tagore, while "Savitri" or "Love Conquers Death", the third playlet, is a lyrical drama by K. N. Das Gupta and adapted from the Hindu epic "The Mahabharata". These three plays combine into one program, the tragedy, comedy, epic, and idealism...
...third play is "Savitrl" or "Love Conquers Death", a lyrical drama by K. N. Das Gupta and is adepted by him from the Hindu epic "The Mahabharata...
VICTORIA-Knut Hamsun-Knopf ($1.75). In his most recently translated novel Hamsun turns away from the epic of the land, such as Growth of the Soil, to a love idyl of lingering beauty and sadness. Victoria is in the pensive manner of Wanderers and Dreamers rather than in the more intense mood of Pan. It concerns the love of Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic landowner, for Johannes, the miller's son. There is not much " story" in the accepted sense, but rather a finespun mood of a sensitive girl whose injustice to her lover brings about tragedy...