Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base of operations 22 mi. from London) that insomnia is out of the question. Last week, smart Prince George performed one of his rare public acts, set literary London by the ears, stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy. Taking as his text what he called "sex novels" Prince George announced: "I am sure that Dr. Samuel Johnson would have quickly sickened, as I have sickened, of novels which only exist on a disproportion ate interest in sex. I have read dozens of famous novels, many of which should have been operated upon for gangrene at a point...
Some people, thanks largely to their fathers and mothers, are still of some good in the world. Authoress Hull, in a remarkably feminine but unsentimental novel, shows the home-fire therapy at work, shows to what beneficent ends its Lares & Penates can keep house. When Amy Norton begins to feel that her marriage with Geoffrey is an experience outworn, that they are both becoming drugs on each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with...
Just so much grit in so many gear-boxes are most themes in most novels. A brilliant exception to this rule is Author Christiansen's Inter-Scandinavian prize novel Two Living and One Dead. So dextrously is its theme amalgamated with its characters that readers will find it impossible to formulate the one without telling the whole story of the others...
...Author. Since 1915 a clerk in the post office of his native city, Drammen, Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...Rousseau's Influence on the Novel: La Nouvelle Heloise", Professor Babbitt, Sever...