Word: novel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough editions (50,000 copies) to make money. Once they tried it. In 1930 four Manhattan publishers-Doubleday, Farrar & Rinehart, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann-published some first editions at $1 to $1.50. They sold more copies, but lost money, dropped the experiment. To break even on a $2.50 novel, publishers figure they must sell at least 2,500 copies. On this number, they figure average costs as follows...
...help finance its strike against Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (now in its seventh month), the American Newspaper Guild two months ago thought up a novel scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...
...heritage from primitive ancestors, who killed their fathers in fits of jealous rage. "We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us," perceptively observed Oliver Wendell Holmes in his pre-Freudian novel The Guardian Angel...
...Rock-first half of his posthumous 1,000,000-word novel - is an answer...
...preface, Thomas Wolfe declared this "the most objective novel that I have written," expressed hope that "the protagonist will illustrate in his own experience every one of us. . . ." Exhausted readers, dazed and deafened from their long buffeting, may seek in vain for Wolfe's "objectivity," for an identity...