Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrians to vote ja in the plebiscite, was supposedly rebuked by the Vatican, and voted ja himself with a Nazi salute (TIME, April 18). Last week the Christian Century, able U. S. nondenominational weekly, published an article by Martin Schroeder, Lutheran student of German church affairs, which offered a novel but specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been divided and Hitler, "looking over the ecclesiastical scratch...
Unlike U. S. book reviewers, who rarely write novels, British book reviewers turn novelists almost as naturally as cocoons turn into moths. While this metamorphosis seldom produces a first-rate novel, it does produce, from plain readers' viewpoint, a pleasing bulk of readable fiction. With their ears continually close to readers' hearts, no one learns better than book reviewers that the warmest heart beats are stimulated by a readable story, lively plot, colorful atmosphere, easy prose, a minimum of literary pioneering. Thus informed, British reviewers, with a better average than most, turn out best-sellers as expertly...
...settlers in upper Quebec, a crusading preacher (his real name was Charles Gordon), Ralph Connor, became a novelist almost by accident. He wrote a story for a Canadian religious magazine, cut it up into three sections, kept adding chapters until it was long enough to be published as a novel, Black Rock. It was an immediate success, and with its successors. The Sky Pilot and The Man from Glengarry, sold about 5,000,000 copies. Connor kept on preaching, became a political figure, was a leading Canadian anti-Fascist until his death last year...
Last week Zane Grey published his 59th book. His total sales now reach about 13,000,000, and his most popular novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, adds up through its many reprintings to 750,000. As in most Zane Grey stories, much of the action in Raiders of Spanish Peaks depends on somebody overhearing somebody else-apparently in the old West there was an eavesdropper crouching behind every clump of sage brush. Also like most Zane Grey stories, the newest one begins with a bang. Hiding out after killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen...
...White Jacket," Melville's famous novel of life on a man-o-war is among the original manuscripts. "Agatha's Story," which he wrote in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of his closest friends, is another...