Word: novelized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...true novel of the South, neither morbid nor sentimental...
RIVER SUPREME-Alice Tisdale Hobart -Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Reprinted novel on China by the author of the best-selling Oil for the Lamps of China...
Somerset Maugham wrote this long novel of a cripple in unworthy love in 1915. Since then the book has sold some 300,000 copies and firmly established itself as a modern masterpiece. For years Hollywood has eyed it as a mighty challenge to the cinema's capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl...
Director John Cromwell's version of Maugham's novel starts when Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) learns in Pans that he is a mediocre painter, makes up his mind to study medicine in London. Near the end of the picture Carey under goes an operation which cures his clubfoot. Director Cromwell and Lester Cohen, who adapted the story, took the intelligent course of deviating as little as possible from Somerset Maugham's narrative. Therefore the most memorable and important part of Of Human Bondage remains Philip's attachment for Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), the waitress who turns...
Though Years Are So Long could not be called propaganda for Mother's Day, it is a novel with a Social Message. Its message is in the form of an implicit and unresolved question: Who is responsible for aged parents, and what is to be done about them? The unsentimental coldness with which Author Lawrence states her typical case-history is well calculated to shock readers into horrified protest, but the exaggerated indifference of her manner saves her story from drabness, gives it a painful point...