Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saint (1898), retreats 400-odd years to the Italy of Cesare Borgia and Niccoló Machiavelli. Then and Now is a talky, occasionally witty costume piece about Machiavelli in love and Borgia in his glory. It is also an ironical sermon on the unchanging wonders of human nature. Novelist Maugham, now 72, denies that he preaches sermons of any kind. Said he recently: "I think it is an abuse to use the novel as a pulpit or a platform. . . . Fiction is an art, and the purpose of art is not to instruct, but to please...
...Studs Lonigan trilogy and Danny O'Neill tetralogy - quotes this remark of Anton Chekhov's at the beginning of Bernard Clare. It is the first of a new series of novels about a young. Chicago-Irish plebeian who fights against odds to make himself into a novelist...
Final Fate. What Novelist Farrell has achieved is an involved, painstaking chronicle of one kind of city life. He has also tried, without much imagination or success, to express his disgust at the power of money over human destinies...
...Parliament some Britons felt that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...
...Novelist Hays, whose last novel, Lie Down in Darkness (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), was a suspenseful psychological study, is more successful in showing where his characters stand in relation to the brotherhood of man than in furnishing them with real legs. His Indians and friars have simple souls, his slave-owners display appropriate symptoms of spiritual and physical decay: everyone is more symbolical than human. But the colorful setting and the well-organized, well-dramatized facts of history set The Takers of the City well above the average of current historical novels...