Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modesty with which Author Benét calls his long poem "a novel in verse" should do much to mollify harsh critics. The brevity and simplicity of his narrative should please unexacting readers. The theme: Sheila as a girl had been in love with Gordon, but he had gone away, she had married Dermot. Though she wanted children, none came. Then Gordon appeared again. As a result of their brief passion Sheila bore a son, Barry. Gordon at first knew nothing of his existence; everyone but Sheila thought he was Dermot's son. Years later, his mother and father...
...Potter. His market letters have for years been famed as models of rhetoric as well as sagacity. Friends and critics have told him for years he should have been a writing man. Now he is confident he has justified their and his belief that he could do a big novel in a big way. His story barges indomitably on & on through 330 pages with never a trace of weariness on Author Revere's part. (He, too, lived a double life-with his book-while writing and rewriting it secretly at his New Jersey home, in spare moments over four...
Four years after Phillips' death there began to appear serially his last & best novel. Susan Lenox-Her Full and Rise. A frank narrative of a prostitute's career, it drew the fire of John S. Suinner and his Society for the Suppression of Vice and made Author Phillips something of a posthumous hero. But to millions of U. S. minds mention of Susan Lenox today brings only the name of Greta Garbo, starred last year in a Hollywood-garbled version of the story...
Ernest Hemingway, first modern exponent of the school of hard-boiled irony, white hope of intelligentsiacs who pride themselves on not being softies, has built himself into that rare phenomenon of a popular author who is spoken well of by the critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight...
BEYOND DESIRE ? Sherwood Anderson ? Liveright ($2.50). His first novel since Dark Laughter...