Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel Thieves in the Night, to be published by Macmillan Co. in November...
...This novel tells what was behind the show in a southern state like Louisiana with a governor like Huey Long. It is a tough, triumphant novel...
Robert Penn Warren, 41, onetime Rhodes Scholar and managing editor of the defunct Southern Review, has written two other novels, neither so good as this, and some first-rate poetry. In all his writing, even at its slickest-and some of this novel is pretty slick-there is a sense of doom and blood on the moon that Warren has gradually shifted into religious terms. Though the title of this book comes from a nursery rhyme, its epigraph comes from a passage in Dante's Purgatorio: "By curse of theirs man is not so lost, that eternal love...
...novel-in which the inimitable Jeeves makes his umpteenth appearance-Pelham Grenville Wodehouse says of Jeeves's cuckoo-pated employer, Berty Wooster: "If there is one quality that distinguishes him, it is his ability to keep the lip stiff and upper and make the best of things. Though crushed to earth, as the expression is, he rises again-not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect and with an eye alert for silver linings...
Readers may well feel that what's sauce for Bertram is sauce for P. G. Joy in the Morning is not only Author Wodehouse's 56th novel. It is also his first peacetime production since his somewhat woolly activities as a broadcaster from Nazi Germany brought down a hail of criticism on his clownish head...