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Word: novelet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Shorts | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...NAKED TRUTH AND ELEVEN OTHER STORIES?Luigi Pirandello?Button ($3). Collection of short and long tales by the Italian virtuoso of the theatre and the continental novelet, boxed and attractively bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 10, 1934 | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

This posthumous story by the late Henry Sydnor Harrison is more of a sermon than a novelet, may possibly help lift you to a state of grace if you are still bemoaning stockmarket losses. Author Harrison wrote so cheerfully you may like it anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Preferred | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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