Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Because Author Asquith's first novel contains more conversation than narrative, ecstatic critics are likening her to Jane Austen. But the light touch and the subtleties of the 19th century novelist are not Margot's-hers is rather a brilliant vivacity that springs from her myriad interests. Able horsewoman, her interest reflects itself in frequent contemplation of the technicalities of horseflesh. Scintillating conversationalist, her characters reflect the widely varied circle of her acquaintance. A liberal in politics, she tilts sharply at conservatism. And the result is a mass of entertaining material, done into novel-form to allow...
...with James Branch Cabell that "The Hard-boiled Virgin" is "the most profound book yet written by any American woman" may condone Miss Newman's latest tour de force as one of the minor sins of genius. To the rest of the public, including this reader, however, this new novel is as unreadable as the former one; the author has possibly proved that dead lovers are faithful lovers but in the process she has once more given evidence that all sentences are not intelligible sentences, that an esoteric style is frequently an abominable style, and that dull books...
Last year Author Oppenheim passed his literary centennial, and still his pen flows pleasantly on, delighting tired doctor, lawyer, merchant, businessman. Though his 103 plots bear a family resemblance, they are often distinguished, as here, by novel features of mystery and intrigue...
Dorian Gray. This is a peculiarly stupid dramatization of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde's novel, about a youthful rake whose orgies cause a portrait of his pretty face to become more and more hideous. WTallis Clark was good as the Devil...
...editors escaped one annoying task writing the preface--by the admirable evasion of having President Lowell do it for them. Thus the volume opens with a distinctive touch. Most striking of the changes is the novel appearance of the individual pictures of the members of the class. With a daring but successful hand, these cuts have been moved to the outer edges of all the pages, and the "life histories" beside them have been carefully and artistically centered. The dignity of the book is curiously enhanced by this transfiguration...