Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such readers, on opening Negro Du Bois's earnest analysis of the post-war years, will find themselves in an historical wonderland in which all familiar scenes and landmarks have been changed or swept away, surrounded by old historic facts in strange and novel dress, by new facts of whose existence they did not dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike...
Throughout the novel there is a powerful surge of adventure. From the opening, when the Irish Sandy Brissaut and his English wife, Getra, flee from the police by sea, to the concluding chapters concerning Andrew's and his companions' return from the bleak Russian steppes, a swift current of happenings bears the characters on swiftly, and at times, inexorably...
...frozen wastes of Russia in search of a brilliant philosopher, who at times seems to become an illusion, a product of fevered imaginations, and the story of Sandy's slow degeneracy are perhaps unsurpassed by any realistic novelist. But it is the motivation of the characters which makes this novel outstanding...
...Light Burning" has none of the brittle, blatant sophistication of the tearoom. Rather it has a truer sophistication that is the result of the author's observation and sensitivity. It is a vigorous yet fanciful novel, with vivid, life-sized characters, ideally suited, with its chilling descriptions of frozen lands, for summer perusal...
CREATING THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL-Harlan Hatcher-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). A broad academic survey of contemporary novelists from William Faulkner to Albert Halper, together with an explanation of current techniques and trends...