Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven of commercially successful female characterizations. Some of the most successful of these have been the creation of Zoe Akins (Déclassée, The Greeks Had a Word for It). Currently she has borrowed a pair of early 19th Century New Yorkers from Edith Wharton's novel. The Old Maid, brought them together with a resounding impact...
...career of a man who is one of the "outs," to satirizing the bigwigs of the "ins," Neumann has wisely terminated his story of Louis Napoleon in the early '50's. Another Caesar is the prelude to the "gaslit tragedy." It is a big, colorful, shrewd novel that sticks pretty closely to the actual course of history. Conversations may be invented, but the characters are all out of the past. And Neumann's analysis of personality and motive is strictly in accordance with the probabilities. His Louis Napoleon is the real Louis Napoleon, a mixture of clownishness...
Another Caesar is not Neumann's first historical novel. The Devil, published in the U. S. in 1928, had considerable success. A play, The Patriot, was made into one of Emil Jannings' best cinemas. Since the advent of Hitler, Neumann has lived in Florence. Another Caesar has been translated into eight languages besides English...
Last year Mrs. Buck interrupted her labors on her Chinese trilogy, which began with the best-selling Good Earth and continued into Sons, to write the story of an elemental Chinese woman, The Mother. Now she has returned to complete the trilogy with a novel that many a reader will consider below the level of her best work...
...book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon on its lack of intrinsic importance. Now, without benefit of a rewrite-man, the Briton who learned his political realism under David Lloyd George has tried it again, in another fuzzy apocalyptic novel of the future...