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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because it is exhibited to call attention to the fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

Also exhibited is the first serialized publication of the later version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," which is regarded as one of the most important works in the development of the modern novel, since it marks Joyce's unmistakable departure, from literary tradition, and his first experiment in recording the activity of the sub conscious mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the End | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Latest Graves novel of Rome's slow fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the End | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...produced in 1921 and was directed by Rex Ingram, who entered the field of spectacular motion pictures very shortly after Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments" appeared. "Scaramouche" and "The Magician" were other films directed by Ingram about this time. The "Four Horsemen" was made after the war novel of the same name published in 1918 by the Spanish author Vincente Blasco Ibanez. Rudolph Valentino, called the greatest cinematic drawing card of all time, plays the starring role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM SOCIETY SHOWS "FOUR HORSEMEN" TODAY | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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