Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delights in recalling his purple past, Nelson Rounsevell is known chiefly for the autobiography he published two years ago under the title The Life Story of "N. R." or 40 Years of Rambling, Gambling and Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely written, paperbound, it read like a dime novel, sold for $1, proved the author to be a sentimental narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were...
...intimates that life since Boylston Street has not been without profit. The plans for the coup have been made and the hour is near--3 o'clock sharp tomorrow afternoon on Boston Common. From the soapbox nearest Beacon and Charles Streets he will launch the final attack with the novel cry "Absolute New and Positive Evidence that Bacon wrote Shakspere...
...years ago Jules Romains offered U. S. readers the first two books in his extraordinary multiple-volume novel. Men of Good Will (TIME. June 5, 1933). Undertaking nothing less than a vast, comprehensive picture of modern society in motion, a work which might run to 25 such books. Jules Romains warned the readers of his masterwork that they must expect to encounter in it just such confusions and uncertainties as they found in life itself. The first four books, each as long as an ordinary novel, constituted the preface to the entire work. They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn...
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH? Morley Callaghan?Random House ($2.50). Long, slow novel, written in Morley Callaghan's familiar and muffled prose, of the relationship of father...
...GREEN CORN REBELLION?William Cunningham?Vanguard ($2). Grim and unusual novel based on a tragically futile uprising of Oklahoma farmers in 1917. written in a manner reminiscent of the work of Erskine Caldwell...