Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incoherent poetry, have a tendency to leave wives, homes, business. Naïve, unpredictable, constantly bemused by the world around them, they have nevertheless possessed a homely reality, emerged as far more life-like U. S. types than the creations of more conventional novelists. Last week, in a novel that is in some respects the most unusual he has written, Sherwood Anderson added the portrait of an active, wilful, adventurous girl to his gallery. Although it has its share of shadowy eccentrics-including one young fellow who wants to be a horse-it differs from Anderson's previous works...
...told the story of the death of a tuberculous writer in Year Before Last, described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works but dealing with an Austrian doctor and an American girl whose love affair was entangled in the affairs of the Austrian Nazis...
...life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before the complexities of life, his reconciliation with his brother, the accidental death of the erring...
...addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch...
...latest parlor game of those who like guppies, goldfish and other watch-through-a-glass-wall pets is watching the work of ants housed in specially constructed glass boxes. First photos of these novel parlor amusements are presented here by COLLEGIATE DIGEST...