Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admirers of the late Sir Henry Rider Haggard will observe that She is a rough adaptation of his novel, written in 1887. Equally apparent is the fact that the narrative is less immune than its heroine to the ravages of time. A sequel to King Kong and other such RKO extravaganzas, marred by idiotic dialog and the wooden acting of Randolph Scott, it can be recommended only to cinemaddicts who find bizarre landscapes and immense improbable interiors adequate substitutes for genuinely imaginative fantasy. Typical shot: She's No. i henchman (Gustav von Seyffertitz) ducking his head and mumbling prayers...
...Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the age of 13, joined the Army during the War, has worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph Conrad, writes that he is "mostly...
...writer of his generation, Germany's Arnold Zweig has written of the years of peace with an imagination dominated by visions and fears of war, of the years of war with an imagination dominated by dreams and hopes of peace. Last week readers who recalled his powerful War novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often...
...BAZALGETTES?Anonymous?Harper ($2.50). A girl who vowed to marry the first man who asked her; a clever but frail parody of the Victorian novel...
Though many a reader has lately grown weary of tales of the South by Southern writers, the Book-of-the-Month Club nevertheless turned once more to that region, picked Deep Dark River as its July choice. On the strength of this, his first novel, critics carefully pigeonholed the name of Robert Rylee as a young U. S. novelist to bear serious watching...