Word: librorum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many authorities believe that Emile Zola wrote The Dream because he wanted very much to get into the French Academy. It is almost aggressively innocuous, but beside Emile Zola's name in the Catholic Index librorum prohibitorum are the words opera omnia, all his works including his snowdrop among weeds," The Dream...
Authoress Undset's latest novel stands a very slim chance of being put on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitorum. If not exactly a manual for Roman Catholics, The Burning Bush should please Catholic palates and doubtless annoy any heffling Protestant literate enough to read it. A sequel to The Wild Orchid, The Burning Bush carries the story of Paul Selmer from young married days to a ripe and disillusioned middle...
...published in Paris (1929) under the title of The Escaped Cock it drew words of high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take it as it was meant...