Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Serafimov's violent adventures and mystical strivings, together with the equally searing experiences of his six companions, formed the substance of an imaginative, intense volume that won the eighth Harper Prize Novel competition ($7,500), seemed likely to impress readers as the most unusual selection thus far.* The work of Frederic Prokosch, 28-year-old author of The Asiatics (1935) and The Assassins (1936), The Seven Who Fled is distinguished by its sensuous imagery, queer plot and elusive symbolism, as well as by a tantalizing, ambiguous philosophical message which will leave most readers wondering if they have...
This week this grim stronghold serves as the setting for a memorable first novel in which able descriptions of prison life about evenly balance the confused accounts of the breakdown of a sensitive prisoner. The story of Number 957 (name: Alexander William Mansell; sentence: life servitude; eyes: brown; height: 5 ft. 7 in.; age: 20; ruptures: none), Museum deals less minutely with its central character than with the stones which enclose him. The work of an Irish agitator who spent 14 years in Dartmoor and Parkhurst prisons, was twice sentenced to death, it is written in a sensitive narrative prose...
...with China's 400,000,000 potential customers. For the past 25 years head of a Shanghai advertising agency, Carl Crow now reveals in 400 Million Customers where he got to while following that vision. An unpretentious, anecdotal account, it is pleasant reading because it deals with a novel part of the Chinese scene and because its humor is as often at the expense of the author and his clients as of the Chinese...
...able to complete his education at London University. Beethoven and Dostoyevski were tremendous experiences which dazed him. He visited the U. S., went back for the War which so shattered him that he was forced to rebuild his life. He wrote a book on Beethoven and an autobiographical novel in which he manifested an impressive lack of interest in politics, business, social gatherings, bank holidays, royal processions...
...born (1895) of Italian parents in Manosque, a little village in the Basses-Alpes, and still lives there, with his wife, his mother and two children. He left high school at 14, went to work for a bank, left it for the War. The success of his first novel (1929) gave him sufficient confidence to become his own master, retire to his house, where he hung a sign on the doorknob: "J. Giono works in the mornings...