Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last message from...
BOWEN'S COURT - Elizabeth Bowen -Knopf ( $3.50 ) . Elizabeth Bowen, excruciatingly sensitive novelist, who has stalked many a ghost in the subcellars and skeleton closets of the mind (The Death of the Heart; To the North), in this book turns from fiction to ponder upon the dead bones of her ancestors. Bowen' s Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like...
...more about Manhattan and Newport society than any other man, including his famed predecessor, Ward McAllister, who invented "The 400." Paul coined the phrase "Café Society" and made a fat living insulting it. But he differed from other society reporters in being able to keep alive the vivid fiction that a world of "real" socialites existed. The fiction will die with...
...interest to anybody who has ever enjoyed Huckleberry Finn. For these three essays are a continuation of Bernard DeVoto's self-imposed literary ordeal-the critical reconstruction of Mark Twain. The first is about Tom Sawyer, and includes the shaky sketch-Mark Twain's first try at fiction -from which it grew. The second is about Huckleberry Finn, and DeVoto prints several revealing pages of Mark Twain's notes for it. The third tells, briefly, of the years of all-but-annihilating personal crisis which Mark Twain managed to resolve in The Mysterious Stranger...
...first half of the book "more to be at work than anything else," laid it by unfinished for six years, then added some of the most magnificent chapters in U.S. literature and a folderol ending. For Mark, says DeVoto, "felt no difference in value between the highest truths of fiction and merely literary burlesque." He had almost no ability to "think and feel [his material] through to its own implicit form." He jotted down and never touched ideas like these...