Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francis Brett Young, English novelist, will speak tonight in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. His subject will be "The Form of a Novel." Mr. Young is especially known for his books, "Sea Horses" and "The Dark Tower...
...Standard. 'I am willing,' I wrote, 'to concede arguments to the effect that Einstein is endowed with a more prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev, one by Gogol-all Russians. 'Would you dare...
...himself for hopeless love, later becoming a monk, then losing his faith; women of various shapes and sizes, uniformly brainless except Pyotr's mother-in-law, who became his father's mistress; a pink-faced carpenter, a philosophizing ancient and that creature as indispensable to a Russian novel as are bobbed hair and bachelors to the Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action and atmosphere of Decadence are typified in a single meteorological description from...
Doris was not a bad woman at all, but her love affair with Apollos, a Jew, had a pronounced geographical tendency that kept getting her into scrapes. She even had a child by Vespasian when the future emperor was only a centurion. Her wanderings make the frame of this novel wide. Her adventures, which are as unintermittent as they are various, provide bright colors for the picture...
Francis Brett Young, the British novelist, will talk on "The Form of a Novel" in the Living Room of the Union on Thursday at 7.30 o'clock. He is the author of "Sea Horses", "The Young Physician", and "The Dark Tower...