Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midsummer Night Madness he wrote a series of subtle, melodious, highly-polished stories that pictured the disorder of civil war-wild chases across country, confused fighting, chance love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...
Last week Sean O'Faolain offered U. S. readers a novel far off the subject of his previous books, suggesting that he has put aside the Irish revolution as material for his fiction, and concentrated on tragedies of peace more compatible with his peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather...
...CLOAK OF MONKEY FUR - Julian Duguid-Apple ton-Century ($2.50). Costume piece by the author of Green Hell; a brisk, fast-moving but conventional novel dealing with an ill-fated expedition from Spain to South America...
Most U. S. novel readers and cinemaddicts picture Vice-Admiral William Bligh, captain of H.M.S. Bounty, as a brave, cruel, stingy Briton who looked like Charles Laughton, lost his ship in a mutiny and steered a small open boat over 3,618 miles of unknown sea. But Bligh was a significant figure in the history of the British navy, with many distinctions besides his romantic misadventures...
Last week John Thomas Mclntyre made Pete's subsequent adventures the basis of a fast moving, 504-page novel that won first place as the U. S. contender in an elaborate contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition. Jointly sponsored by the Literary Guild, Warner Bros., Farrar & Rinehart and publishers in eleven countries, the All-Nations' prize is to be awarded after an international elimination contest. As U. S. contender, Author Mclntyre wins $4,000; if he wins the All-Nations' prize he gets $19,000. Steps Going Down is a lively and frequently amusing book...