Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...
Fifteen years ago Novelist Aldous Huxley regaled British and American wits with a prophetic novel entitled Brave New World. In this caustic, chilly fantasy of a world-to-come (A.D. 2,500), babies were born in class-distinctive bottles, travel was in state-controlled helicopters, scientific absolutism was the universal rule. People swallowed a tabloid of happiness when they felt blue, worshiped a mechanistic god named "Our Ford," and believed that sexual fidelity was obscene. Faced with the alternatives of being Utopian or regressing into a squalid primitivism, the unhappy hero of Brave New World chose to hang himself...
Miss Leckton dominates The Sudden Guest, the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selection for September (with Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4). Described by the publishers as a novel, The Sudden Guest is in fact little more than an elaborately contrived but not penetrating character study, with the East Coast hurricanes of 1938 and 1944 as background. The hurricanes blow an assortment of people into Miss Leckton's little world of servants, silverware and unearned income. She resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews...
Christine Weston was born & bred in what the Literary Guild-which has made her new novel its September selection-calls "Gandhi's country" (India), where her French father was an indigo planter. In 1923 she married an American, came to live in Warren G. Harding's country. Twenty years after, Indigo (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943), her fourth novel, brought Author Weston a degree of prestige and profit...
Ever since Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth made peasant life in China familiar to thousands of Americans, Publishers John Day (whose president, Richard J. Walsh, is Novelist Buck's husband) have been praying for a novel that would do as much for the peasants of India. They believe that The Land and the Well is the answer to their prayer...