Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novels. Their intense mysticism shows his work at its best, though it may puzzle readers accustomed to straight stories. THE ROAD TO THE OPEN?Arthur Schnitzler?Knopf ($2.50). Schnitzler is better known as a dramatist than a novelist. The present novel is a translation of his longest and best fiction. With his accustomed subtlety and melancholy it pictures the life of a young man in Vienna who lives for pleasure only, his various entanglements, his interest in and creation of music, his friends both in the gay upper society and the humbler middle class. Schnitzler here, as always, regards life...
...observations-drawn from a very nice neighborhood." Robert Cortes Holiday: "Mr. Tarkington seems to present himself as a rather playful neurologist. Something like a scientific interest may be discerned running through the collection." The Author. Booth Tarkington is one of the first representatives of the Hoosier school of fiction. His books rarely stray from scenes in the Middle West. His important books are: Monsieur Beaucaire, The Turmoil, Seventeen, The Gentleman from Indiana. He won the Pulitzer prize for the best American novel published in 1919 with The Magnificent Ambersons, and in 1922 with Alice Adams...
...cities are saturated with the literature of escape. Does an old maid or a Babbitt couple pine for romance, they can find it in The New York Journal, the cheap fiction magazines, or the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, Emerson Hough iand Rupert Hughes. Does a young man long for success and a "strong character," he can imagine he is acquiring these things from the American Magazine. Does a harassed and ineffectual "white collar slave" crave some denial of the harshness of existence, he has but to turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane...
...runs down hill'. History has no lessons to teach, for the same situation never occurs twice, and in two apparently similar situations what has worked well in one case may turn out very differently in the other. And if it is a question of observing human nature, I prefer fiction, properly so called...
...Phillips Brooks House Association will open its annual spring clothing campaign this morning in all the dormitories of the University. During the four days of the collecting, not only old clothing will be sought but also books of fiction, modern languages, history, and sciences such as astronomy, navigation, elementary mathematics, because of the call for such books by the American Merchant Marine...