Word: masterworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German masterwork on the subject is Der Chemischc Krieg by Dr. Rudolf Hanslian...
Last week gabby old George Bernard Shaw tripped through the U. S. Southwest leaving columns of commonplace impertinences in his wake. Simultaneously a 13-year-old Shavian masterwork made thrilling news for Manhattan playgoers when Katharine Cornell revived Saint Joan...
...selling them to all-comers at $15 per set. This unexpurgated edition, printed from the old Davis plates, had behind it a mass of U. S. court decisions which, to Mr. Cerf, seemed to remove the last effective restrictions on the popular publication of the Ellis masterwork (TIME...
...readers the first two books in his extraordinary multiple-volume novel. Men of Good Will (TIME. June 5, 1933). Undertaking nothing less than a vast, comprehensive picture of modern society in motion, a work which might run to 25 such books. Jules Romains warned the readers of his masterwork that they must expect to encounter in it just such confusions and uncertainties as they found in life itself. The first four books, each as long as an ordinary novel, constituted the preface to the entire work. They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn from every level of Parisian society...
Although Jules Romains attempts to make each volume of his masterwork intelligible in its own right, the stories are so interwoven that Men of Good Will must be read from the beginning to be appreciated. While Jules Romains excels in his portraits of ambitious and resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature...