Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More compact an outline, more pastoral in treatment, his second has the same general setting but a different time and far narrower scope. In spite of its slightly cramped design, however, and chiefly by reason of its author's virtuosity, it is in all respects a highly interesting novel...
...partly to the stubborn stodginess of the Boers themselves, even more to their galumphing dialect, a certain drabness of atmosphere has beclouded every novel of the Cape Colony, from Olive Schreiner's Story Of An African Farm on down. Swift, even melodramatic though The Turning Wheels is, many a reader will come an early cropper over words like baas, kopje, kloof, veldt, mevrou, spruit* with which its text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader...
...moved like an ambling village, its scouts fanned out before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled...
...stayed 15 years, working on cattle ranches, ending as owner of a dairy farm near Johannesburg; had no thought of writing until five years ago, when, bursting with Boer legends, he returned to London, ground some of his material into London magazine serials, used the remainder in the present novel. Tall, mustached, handsome, he would like (having visited Manhattan) to divide his time between England and the U. S., is meditating a series of connected novels to bring Boer history down to date...
...Turning Wheels, Cloete's first published novel, was chosen as book-of-the-month by England's Book Society, the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club...