Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wager Phileas Fogg, cucumbrous hero of Novelist Jules Verne's best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...
...Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...
...Novelist Godden is 31, has spent most of her life in India, knows her hill country. Little happens in Black Narcissus, but the charm of the characters, and their talk, keep the story moving. U. S. readers will find few better novels for hammock reading this summer...
...Wagon Family, about 50,000 copies; Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, over 75,000 copies). Like them, it should please readers willing to "enter upon a surprising and beautiful adventure" wherein dream girls are "spirited, but with moderation, in the classic way." Like his hero, Mole, slight, whimsical Novelist Benefield has been a publisher's editor. Before that he was handyman in his father's Texas feed store, a reporter on Texas and Manhattan newspapers, an advertising copy writer. Now in his late fifties (he says he is "eleven going on twelve"), Author Benefield commutes three days...