Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recounting a notorious incident of German history to illustrate a universal abuse; for in the youthful victim of a political intrigue he sees the symbol of all misunderstood children. By such explicit labeling the author hopes to establish his book as something more than the excellent historical novel which a large and enthusiastic European public thought...
Shadows of Fear is a testimonial to a short, awkward, massive, bearded, sharp-nosed shadow, that of Émile Zola from whose novel, Thérèse Raquin, the story is accurately taken. How a girl connives with her lover to push her invalid husband into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown...
...confused with Show Girl, an unsuccessful adaptation of J. P. McEvoy's novel of that name...
Have you read John Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...
...HUXLEY has done satire on the human scene before this, but never on such a large scale, or perhaps so well. The disconnected bits that he pieces together in "Point Counter Point" to make what he calls a novel do make a pattern of sorts, which gives ample illustration, or corroboration, as the case may be, of his ideas on the futility of human endeavor...