Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is not the only field that the University Press emphasizes. Any non-fiction work that "will advance learning," regardless of its potential market, has a chance of being published, if the Board of Syndies approves. Nine professors, representing the main branches of learning, sit on the Board of Syndies for terms of four years...
...Wells's struggle first to win knowledge for himself, then to pass it on (often in the tempting form of fantastic fiction) to the rest of the world, Biographer Vallentin writes with intelligence and sympathy, making clear that Wells was, as one critic said, "a glorified edition of the ordinary man." On the other hand, her biography of him might equally well be called an ordinary .edition of a glorified man. It lists and describes, precisely but unimaginatively, practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest...
This concentration-camp novel by an expatriate Rumanian has outsold (175,000 copies) every other book of fiction published in France since the war. Already translated into 14 languages, its total sales are close to the million mork. Hundreds of reviews and articles, mostly respectful, have been written about the book and it has been the subject of scores of sermons. Read with European eyes, it is not hard to see why: 1) its painful, powerful picture of concentration-camp barbarism records a horror intimately known to millions; 2) its villain is, conveniently, neither Fascism nor Communism but a machine...
...straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell's dissection of what a U.S. Communist writer is up against when he tries to shade the party line, comes as close as anything in recent fiction to making homegrown intellectual Reds human in their fears, fallacies and betrayals...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Cary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...