Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week...
...education, was only 23 years old when he published the first volume in 1928. Yet, Solzhenitsyn points out, "the book reveals the kind of literary power attainable only after many attempts by an experienced and accomplished writer." He also joins many critics in observing that Sholokhov's other fiction (Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies translated into 40 different Soviet languages), and Soviet textbooks extol it as the supreme literary accomplishment of Communism...
...Rich Women Quarrel More Frequently than Poor?" as well as a column signed "Barbara." But one journal could not contain him; Bennett had realized that he could write anything. Within a few years it was a critical commonplace to grade his output: Prime Bennett (literature), Pure Bennett (for fiction lovers), and Just Bennett (for those who read anything...
Pure Bennett and Just Bennett were often eager, free fantasies based on the luxuries he was increasingly able to buy. He loved yachts and grand hotels. Two of his greatest bestsellers, Grand Babylon Hotel and Imperial Palace, are phantasmagorias crowded with counts and chandeliers. To the connoisseur of popular fiction they are still texts; Arthur Hailey, for one, admits to studying them for his own whopper, Hotel...
...FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week) 2-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 3-Watership Down, Adams (3) 4-Jaws, Benchley(4) 5-Cashelmara, Howatch (5) 6-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt(8) 7-The War Between the Tates, Lurie 8-Centennial, Michener (9) 9-The Fan Club, Wallace (6) 10-lf Beale Street Could Talk, Baldwin...