Word: novelists
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...which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy." Maugham was 45 when that novel was published in 1919; he had another 46 years ahead of him. But even a novelist of his energy could not have imagined a life that began with Victoria on the throne and ended with the crowning of the Beatles...
...ruthless eye prompted reviewers to call him the Kipling of the Pacific and the English Maupassant. But by World War II, a younger generation of critics offered a different opinion. Edmund Wilson, whose word was law west of the New Republic, charged that Maugham was a "half-trashy novelist, who writes badly, but is patronized by half-serious readers, who do not care much about writing...
...named Arabel, who blithely invented espionage in Lisbon for the Germans and worked legitimately for the British during the war. Robinson, 48, a Cantabrigian who lives in a Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened his sense of irony. He writes lyrically of the terrain of Spain, of the "vast and seamless tent" of sky above Madrid. Like his hero, who never set foot in England, Robinson has never even seen Madrid...
...peoples of the Soviet Union." For several years, Blake has been preparing a biography of the writer, or as she describes it, "a selective history of Russia with Solzhenitsyn as the central figure." Moreover, since joining TIME in 1968, she has turned out more than 50 articles on the novelist, ranging in length from a 1974 cover story on his deportation from the Soviet Union to a 1972 translation of his little known 14-line prayer in verse. She also was greatly responsible for the 1969 publication in TIME of Solzhenitsyn's The Easter Procession, a short story that...
Some Soviet dissidents still argue that their country's Marxist-Leninist system can be reformed from within. Not Alexander Solzhenitsyn: he has never swerved from his belief in the inherent evil of Communism. Last week, the Nobel-prizewinning novelist composed this essay for TIME in response to the crisis in East-West relations created by the Soviet conquest of Afghanistan. Solzhenitsyn argues that Afghanistan is merely the latest demonstration of the U.S.S.R.s insatiable desire for world conquest. As in his grim 1978 Harvard commencement address, he chides the West for weakness. But the West may yet prevail, he says...