Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the appearance of his "Selected Poems" in 1943, followed by the publication some two months age of his latest novel, "All The King's Men," Robert Penn Warren gives evidence that he has arrived at the height of his powers, both in fiction and poetry, and is one of the two or three most vigorous artists now working in American letters...
Alexandra Dumas (The Three Musketeers), who published some 1,200 books over his own name (he ran the first ghostwriting factory), seemed to be not quite all published yet. Turned up in Paris: the manuscript of an unpublished novel (The Red Sphinx) about Cardinal Richelieu...
...affairs. Bennett's experts would help the districts as "land doctors." In their kits they had a dazzling array of medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour plowing, strip planting, terracing. For run-down soils, they recommended cover crops and suitable fertilizers. They would survey and test a whole district, then tell farmers how to make soil more productive...
...French dime novel behind footlights, Obsession tells of a coldhearted minx who marries a very jealous man while remaining the mistress of a very rich one! She is such a bad liar that the most trusting husband would be wild with suspicion in a week; her own husband has spotted his rival before all the audience has straggled in, and has murdered him long before the end. As the curtain falls, the husband is taken into custody. The wife unconcernedly lights a cigaret...
...Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June was The Hucksters, Frederic Wakeman's sharp, satirical novel about...