Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Acre (Security Pictures; United Artists) is a literary locale in the moral sump at the dead end of Tobacco Road, and Novelist Erskine Caldwell mucked about in it so merrily that his novel has sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 25 years. Cleaned up for the cinema public, Caldwell's Acre still contains enough rich, smelly dirt to grow a mort of the sort of lettuce Hollywood loves best...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
Jonathan Kozol has added another chapter to his saga of mental pathology. Insights and images accumulated while crawling through the sewers of the mind are tied together in a bitter-sweet package of sickness titled "The Ritual." If this sample is typical of the novel from which it is taken, it is hard to see how the full dosage can be made digestible...
...most obvious of Thurber's symbols is the dog. Dogs as symbols are not new, but Thurber's canines are novel in every respect. They are large and friendly, with sad eyes, huge ears, and long tails. They play the role of impersonal participants in the action of life, and are likened by many to the chorus in Greek tragedy. They represent normalcy in contrast to man. "My conclusions entirely support the theory that dogs have a saner family life than people," the author states. They do not mask their feelings and regiment their emotions. (For full treatment of this...
This quietly compelling first novel by 36-year-old. Amsterdam-born Hans Koningsberger does what life has been known to do: it mismatches a man and a woman. Toni and Catherine are not meant for each other, but owing to the chemistry of passion, smoke gets in their eyes. Temperamentally, the pair usurp each other's sex roles. Toni is sensitive, day-dreamy, putty-willed. An internee, he longs to escape to Britain, but rarely makes a real move to get there. Swiss Catherine is the fully emancipated "New Woman" who was born in the inkwells of Ibsen...