Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first chapter of "We Accept With Pleasure" is a model chapter, it is understood. Last spring the prolific Mr. De Voto lectured his students on what material a novelist should employ in the opening chapter. "I've read novel after novel handed in for English 31, but never have I found a really balanced opener," he declared, and to illustrate his point, read off a piece he said was written by a close friend of his. "This is the first which covers all the essential points...
Five years ago Evelyn Waugh wrote an unusual first novel (Decline & Fall) which scandalized some readers, tickled many more. In 1930 came Vile Bodies, more of the same, which seemed to establish its author as one of the really funny satirists of the day. But his next, Black Mischief, sandwiched in between some disappointingly pedantic travel books, had an inferior taste, a gritty quality that set some teeth on edge. Last week readers of his latest novel were loudly disagreeing with each other about whether this new departure was or was not in a right direction. Critics had to scratch...
...cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly melodrama, partly farce...
...circles, which often have other cabalistic signs inside them, are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch insurance to ward off the evil eye from the cattle within. Like other farming communities, this rich and peaceful land has its dark traditions, its hexerei (witchcraft). Energetic Thames Williamson, author of four dramatic novels about four different sections of the U. S., now publishes what he calls "a last regional novel" about the Pennsylvania Dutch...
Says 24-year-old Author Johnson of her first novel: "I wanted to give a beautiful and yet not incongruous form to the ordinary living of life-to write . . . poetry with its feet on the ground. . . . I have tried to show things as they are, but to show more also: the underground part of life that is unseen, and the richness which, though visible, is not noticed." Plain readers may find the ground a little flat, the poetry a little uncertain of its feet, but they will give Author Johnson high marks for an ambitious effort. More cynical critics will...