Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purity. "The bedroom farce and the sex novel do not exist in Russia. . . . There is a refreshing freedom from sex consciousness. . . . Men and women go swimming in the same lake or river, without bathing suits. . . ." Thus Miss Thompson plumbs the purity of Russian minds...
There can be no doubt that this "musical version" of the novel of famed Author Alexandre Dumas is as good as any such production is likely to be. Mr. Ziegfeld, hitherto the most ardent sponsor of these things, has announced that he intends to produce no more of them...
...Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have as much fun as we are having with these papers." Readers of the Democrat wondered when their editor's breadwinning novel would appear...
ALREADY in its third printing, Schnitzler's "Daybreak," has quite proved its right of succession to "Rhapsody." Probably no living writer excells this author in the short episodic novel form. Old enough to retain the fine art of story telling, Schnitzler knows the use of the new school of psychology, and employs it without intrusion. The story is remarkable for its drama, and yet the author escapes the melodramatic without sacrificing emotion...
...that neither of the two books that head the list of English best-sellers is written by an Englishman. One of course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side of the Atlantic. The publishers of "The Ugly Duchess" report that as far as they have been able...