Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis. Oldest (33) of the Oxford Poets, once considered almost indistinguishable from Poet Auden, he now orients himself to Marx where Auden follows Freud, now writes few poems and many book reviews, turns out detective stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. Last spring he published his first novel, The Friendly Tree, a love story almost panting with lyric breathlessness...
Compared with his first novel, Starting Point shows a marked improvement-its theme is more mature, its prose less fluttery. Its four central characters are Oxford roommates: Theodore, a small, plump, precocious, post-Huxleyan cynic; effeminate, peace-loving Henry; John, a shy, radical, brilliant science student; and Anthony, popular, versatile, idealistic son of a rich, liberal M. P. The time...
...Borrowed Time (adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). First-nighters at On Borrowed Time ached from applauding. Critics went back to their offices and wrote starry-eyed reviews. Speculators promptly invested in an eight-week buy. But here & there a cold fish issued coldly from the playhouse, willing to admit that it had been a pleasant enough evening, but nothing more. In any case, it had been all about a lovable old codger (Dudley Digges) who saved his little orphaned grandson from the clutches of a prim, pious, perfectly terrible...
...Thornton W11der; produced by Jed Harris). Last week 40-year-old Novelist Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) achieved a 25-year-old ambition. He became a playwright in full Broadway standing. His play, moreover, proved him as adventurous in the theatre as he is cloistered at novel-writing. Concerned with life in a small New Hampshire community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic...
...came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because European scholars and critics of authority collaborated in their making. Craftsmen admire them because their reproductions are the result of painstaking care and patience which has often extended to six months' labor on a single plate...