Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary fiction by which the Parliament "prays Her Majesty" to revoke an order made in her name by the government acting as "Her Majesty in Council...
...FRANCE AS SPY. Said the Herald: "The story of George DuPre, as related in the ... Reader's Digest, is a fiction. Millions of people in every country in which the Digest is published will have been taken in ... There are so many holes in [his story] that it is hard to imagine DuPre expecting to get away with it." There was no denying the Herald's expose. Author Reynolds announced candidly that he had been "duped" by the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated." Reader's Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace was equally stunned, explained that the Digest would confess...
...very sorry for George." Random House Publisher Cerf took a more commercial view: this week he offered to refund the price of the book to anyone who wanted it, and suggested to bookstores all over the U.S. that they move the book from the "nonfiction" display shelves to the "fiction" section where it belongs...
...letters and memoirs descend on U.S. book counters week after week. Occasionally, the researcher takes his camera with him and produces a pictorial report, as in the University of Chicago's handsome Persepolis (see pictures on following pages). But again and again, researchers market their researches as historical fiction. This fall, with the Christmas trade in cheerful mind, publishers have trundled out something new from almost every surefire era. A sampling...
...this time, Marius' own end is in sight. His mind cracks. In the novel's closing scenes, grim as any in recent fiction, Marius babbles like a seagoing Lear ("Clear away aft ... let go for'ard") and mistakes his mother for his favorite brothel companion. Unmoved, smugly vengeful, she gloats: "God has drawn down the blind. That is only just ... He is overthrown and that is just...