Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riding after them, breaking from the wood on every side, came the hunt," wrote Authoress Mary Webb in the climax to her 32-year-old novel, Gone to Earth. "Coming, as they did, from the deep gloom, fiery-faced and fiery-coated, with eyes frenzied by excitement, and open, cavernous mouths, they were like devils emerging from hell on a foraging expedition...
...month the shooting of the outdoor sequences clicked along without a hitch. When the moviemakers went back to London to finish some indoor shots, the squires of Much Wenlock finally holed up to have a look at Mrs. Webb's novel. What they read led them to draft a hasty letter to the potent British Field Sports Society...
Animal Implications. A quarter century ago, with another cast of characters dredged out of mythology, Novelist John Erskine zoomed into bestsellerdom with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, a smooth, sophisticated novel which gave Helen & Co. the immediacy of next-door neighbors. Erskine is now 70 and a professor emeritus of Columbia University, but he appears to have lost little of the confident urbanity and slick malice that became his literary trademarks. Always gallant, his defense of his Venus is both tolerant and graceful: "Her infidelities were only apparent, they were never more than intermittent, and she always went...
Russell Janney is an old and successful hand at reducing religious feeling to bathos ; his slushy novel, The Miracle of the Bells (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), sold 750,000 copies. His doggerel Vision of Red O'Shea may not do as well, but it has a distinction of its own: not since Edgar Guest lit his Harbor Lights of Home and Robert Service thumped through Songs of a Sourdough has a versifier shown such loving absorption in platitude and meticulous attention to clich...
...look for in future issues. the new department could and should supplant the self-conscious, posturing "Notes from 40 Bow Street" column, which provides vital data about the contributors, such as that they are enrolled in an advanced composition course, or that they are "currently at work on a novel...