Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dodsworth was adapted by Sidney Howard from his own dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' novel, directed with a proper understanding of its values by William Wyler, splendidly cast and brilliantly played...
Last year readers with a taste for unusual prose and a willingness to search for cryptic significance in faction found a book that suited them perfectly in a first novel called The Asiatics. It was the work of a 78-year-old Yale professor, and it described the wanderings of an anonymous narrator from Persia to China, with careful and realistic descriptions of the extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book...
Last week Author Adamic offered his second novel in which his family did not er.ter directly, but for which intense and frustrated family feeling still provided the guiding theme. A 468-page chronicle that begins 'strongly, drifts to an unconvincing conclusion, Cradle of Life belongs in the ran!: of those books that are interesting for the facts they give on unfamiliar environments, but are made tedious by hackneyed and romantic plots. Louis Adamic's interesting facts include descriptions of the perils faced by Balkan bastards. In pre-War Croatia these waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant...
SEVEN RED SUNDAYS-Ramon J. Sender -Liveright ($2.50). Wild and powerful novel of the Spanish revolutionary movement, by a young novelist who has come to be regarded as one of the most promising in Spain, and who dedicates his book to the anarchosyndicalists, "dreaming of a strange state of society in which all men are as disinterested as St. Francis of Assisi, bold as Spartacus, and able as Newton and Hegel...
...TIME TO REMEMBER-Leane Zugsmith-Random House ($2.00). Skillful novel about a strike in a department store, complete with clear portraits of cashiers, shoe-salesmen, harassed employers, unwilling informers, unromanticized union leaders, weakened by a too simple picture of the daily routine of a large store...