Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will nonetheless keep the old accent on the homespun and homegrown. Its first issue featured an interview with rarely interviewed Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell, a Journal alumna. Its second spotlighted another Georgia big-name, Lillian Smith, telling what happens to a Southerner who writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss Smith $100 for the article, the princeliest sum Editor Angus Perkerson has forked...
...Owen Wingrave" is not James' only essay into the theatre, though his plays are far overshadowed by his novels and are almost never mentioned by his critics. Of the seven or eight plays that he wrote between 1889 and 1894, only two were ever seen upon the stage. The first of these was a dramatic version of his novel, "The American," which did fairly well on the straw-hat circuit but ran for only about two months in London during the fall of 1891. In its later provincial life it was played with a re-written last act, wherein, much...
Since 1936 talented Angela Thirkeil, who is. as stylistically languid as her Pre-Raphaelite grandfather Edward Burne-Jones and as staunchly British as her cousins Stanley Baldwin and the late Rudyard Kipling, has made hay in the fictitious fields of Barsetshire - the mythical English region created by Victorian Novel ist Anthony Trollope. In a series of novels (including the best-selling The Brandons and Northbridge Rectory}, Author Thirkell has peopled Barsetshire with 20th-Century "descendants" of Trollope's squires, rural deans, bluebloods, housemaids and self-made men - all of whom breathe an air of whimsy, nostalgia and laconic...
Harg, in this novel by Vardis Fisher, was one of several hundred squat, hairy, apelike men roaming the part of Europe that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...
Tale of the Present? Through the simple, subdued prose of Author Fisher's novel, some quietly ironic points appear, though not so plainly that readers can be sure of the author's intent. Harg's people, stumbling, awkward, terrified, sometimes brutal, are far more human and likable than the more civilized, capable Cro-Magnons. Here & there through the book some readers may suspect that Author Fisher is actually writing a modern allegory, placing his story in prehistoric times because its picture of humanity would be too harsh if laid in the here...