Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit, Disraeli is?it could not be otherwise?the younger. Kittenishly and desperately he is in love with two grandmothers. Reeking with atrocious romance he will write yet another novel, while perhaps Gladstone's chief private speculation is whether he ought not even now to retire from politics and serve God as a bishop...
...Leonard Cline, like Paulus his protagonist, has defied the laws and conventions of the commonplace and has created an original and powerful novel tinged with the color of Finnish legends and folklore...
...lest some goggle-eyed callow youth still think that the reading of this travesty of a tragedy is all play and no work let him take into consideration the acute banality of the story. THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE epitomizes the novel as follows...
...author's fervor in creating him. His son, Gilson, in his love for the little Japanese girl, is not always completely convincing. The story itself often lacks clarity, becomes entangled in the mazes of an evident flair for originality. Yet it is interesting, at times, revealing. And any novel which includes a character like the good Captain Horn who had one very bad night must eventually satisfy, even as does this one from the many refreshing descriptions of the many refreshing descriptions of the Ladies of the Compound. "As a preliminary to speech she pressed the extended fingers...
Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...