Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BREAD AND FIRE-Charles R. Walker-Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). Intellectually honest novel of a Worker...
...country, editing a pictorial magazine, taking astonishing vacations, by the age of 21. Then he romped around the world in tramp ship forecastles, called it The Royal Road to Romance, said he was "living poetry instead of writing it." He talks volubly, cracks many jokes, threatens to write a novel called Hell...
...RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE-G. K. Chesterton-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A brief for romanticism in a reactionary age; a novel...
...Yale Daily News last week suggested that the highest honor for graduating students on Commencement Day "will be the novel privilege of seeing the President of Yale University [Dr. James Rowland Angell]. Of course, those who do not receive the sheepskin will have completed their four years without resting eyes on this personage. This picture of conditions is a little overdrawn, but the fact remains that at no time during the college year does the President meet the student body...
...Significance of Author Woolf's last novel, Mrs. Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. Mrs. Dalloway observed the classic unities of drama, concentrating on one woman, one day in her life. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. The author's scrutiny falls, not on one but on many personalities. Now, in her brilliant offensive on the human soul, she does not perpetrate an open advance. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers...