Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first working women's club at St. Petersburg in 1907, wrote The Social Basis of the Woman Question. Her next book was the monumental, 600-page Motherhood and Society, points from this last being later embodied into the laws of Norway. She speaks 15 languages, writes warm novel ettes which prudes have called "too realistic." Present...
...When Yale's Sinclair Lewis was preparing to write Arrowsmith, novel of doctors and medical researchers (TIME, March 23, 1925), Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters) traveled with him, gave him his scientific information. They decided to make bacteriophage Martin Arrowsmith's research goal. A climax of the story comes when the phage is tried out against an epidemic of bubonic plague. But Yale's Professor d'Herelle was not Arrowsmith's prototype. Born in Montreal (1873), he studied and worked abroad, joined Yale in 1928, speaks with a decided French accent...
Success combines the best features of a newspaper, an historical novel, a cinema, a course of lectures. Its scene is Munich and Bavaria, 1921-23. Central theme is the trial and imprisonment of one Martin Kruger, director of Munich's National Galleries. Krüger is persona non grata with the Bavarian government; on a trumped-up charge of perjury he is arrested and convicted. As his friends work for his release he becomes for them the symbol of justice; to the government his unjust imprisonment is an instance of good administration. But for each side Krüger is only...
With such characters to work with Miss Lehmann has written a novel of considerable beauty. Bringing together these people in a perfectly normal situation she succeeds in giving her theme a real musical note that develops into a poignant melody when the young couple desert the town and leave the original characters to settle back into their ordinary lives...
Comparisons between "A Note In Music" and Miss Lehmann's remarkable first novel. "Dusty Answer", are inevitable. The author does not lose ground by the process; the new book is a worthy successor to one that portrayed adolescent womanhood as no other has done in a generation of novelists who take adolescence as their only subject matter. The actual writing in the second novel is done in that delightfully delicate prose that brought so much praise for the first. The chief difference is in the scope of the two themes. "Dusty Answer" is centered about the life of one girl...