Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire...
INTO the hands of a public already steeped in Civil War fiction comes a truly worthy picture of the South during and immediately after the war. The Unvanquished presents the story of a family wrapped up in the events and consequences of every turn of the struggle, embodying the very essence of the Southern viewpoint. But there are no pictures of the battles and bloodshed, of the marches of destruction made by the Northern armies. These have already been told all too often. Instead, William Faulkner gives the psychological reactions these events had on the home life of a typical...
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