Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good books lately? Well, there is a hardback collection of Typee, Omoo and Mardi, all by a young novelist named Herman Melville (1819-91). Nearly 33,000 copies have been printed, shipped and readied for sale. And that is not all. Three look-alike companions are also hot off the presses and speeding toward dealers: the complete poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819-92), the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) and three novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). They will soon be available in U.S. bookstores, at $25 apiece...
This scenario is shrewdly amplified by an expert in the art of ransacking history for thrills. British Novelist Ken Follett, 32, rewrote World War II in The Eye of the Needle and reinterpreted Middle East tensions in Triple. In The Man from St. Petersburg, he recalls Russia and England during the days just before the Great War. As always, his plot is eerily plausible...
...poses a somewhat more difficult problem. Perhaps for this reason, few essayists burn in the memory as writers of the first class. It is no cheapening of imaginative literature to assert that for every Orwell or for every Thoreau or for every Montaigne there may be a dozen great novelist: instead, it merely points up the frailty of the unaided intellect and the fantastic power of the imagination...
...Novelist G K Chesterton once wrote, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. "So it is with the political doctrine that develops in Will's book Reagan rhetoric declares that government is the root at our woes and that government, as distinct from the people, must bear the brunt of the sacrifice necessary to restore this nation to prosperity, the populace need not suffer along the route to revival Will, however, disagrees...
...your story on the Manufacturers Hanover Corp.'s annual report [March 29], you twice identify me as a novelist-without, however, citing the titles of any of my novels. That would have been difficult. Of the 20-odd books I have had published (most recently Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney), every one has been a work of nonfiction...