Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only speculate as to the treatment accorded the Great Temperance Movement by one who was not brought up in the American atmosphere of W. C. T. U. tent meetings, Carrie Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form...
...volume of poetry entitled "Poemes D'Amerique", which is based on his ten year's stay in this country. The volume will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...
...novel (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927), wherein a girl who was reared to be snoopy about sex becomes a cosmopolitan esthete. The soon forgotten fame of The Hard-Boiled Virgin rested on such smart remarks as: "In Georgia, no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she ceased...
Utterly discouraged at twenty, he wrote a successful novel,?a practice which he followed periodically after each disappointment, analyzing the causes of his failures, and mapping out a new program...
...especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness of treatment to match its substance. It is a novel for those who do not mistake savagery for sincerity, rage or ribaldry for realism, who can bear with a certain lack of energy and emphasis when it is not replaced with drooling "poignance...