Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of Hervey Allen's fiction is in its pageantry, the broad sweep of forest, river and mountains, with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...
...important contribution to the war" is the citation given by the Council on Books in Wartime. "Incredibly honest-a triumph of free speech," says the Dallas Morning Times. "Hersey has circumvented censorship by putting his observations into fiction form. One of the most inspiring books of the season," writes the Portland Oregonian. The Army Times calls A Bell for Adano "a tough book, slashing and cutting at a system personified by one of the Army's most publicized generals." And the Atlanta Constitution says: "It makes you proud to be an American," but "it may well be the basis...
Through the gossip ran a feeling of something fishy. The suspicious wondered: Could Bluebeard Petiot be a fiction invented to distract the people...
...climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have occurred. It is a somewhat inhibiting theme, costly in that it imprisons literary imaginations that might otherwise be free to write of the rich and varied Southern life that is sufficiently exciting without it. But the story deals with a harrowing...
...film is gifted Director Lewis Milestone's best since All Quiet on the Western trout (1930). It is also extremely effective propaganda. But sober and well-informed cinemaddicts may have some doubts about it. The Purple Heart is fiction, but it is fiction about some still rather foggy historical facts. As it is very persuasively played, it is likely to be accepted as truth by a great many people not all of whom will be able to judge where fact ends and fiction begins...