Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first glance, readers may mistake Little Coquette for a French version of Life with Father. It is, rather, social history viewed through the eyes of a little girl and written in a new form-or in an adaptation of the novel form which is so different that it promises to become a new type of literature...
...result is, like Santayana's The Last Puritan, a novel in the form of a memoir, not autobiographical, since it centers on someone other than the author, not fiction, since what it tells really happened, not biography, since it is not confined in a rigid framework of fact. At its best, this type of work combines the narrative interest of fiction with the educative value of biography...
...with all this to recommend it, "Guest in the House" does not quite come off either as entertainment or a penetrating psychological study. Miss Eunson and Miss Wilde have hit on a novel idea in having a neurotic girl consciously set out to wreck the happily married life of the Proctors, living in a small house near Trumbull, Connecticut. This kind of thing has undoubtedly happened in many households, in one form or another, and the co-authors never succeed in making the situation quite believable...
...standard, Land I Have Chosen is a remarkable first novel. It is remarkable for: 1) its plot, a rigorous, old-fashioned narrative with beginning, middle and end; 2) its portrait of Anne Brooke, a well-meaning, attractive girl who begins as a Long Island debutante, ends as a Nazi sympathizer. But the book's chief interest is that it is the work of Mrs. Irving Berlin...
Unlike many first novels, Land I Have Chosen is not autobiographical. The mother of three daughters, and a highly articulate anti-Nazi, Novelist Berlin is not like her novel's heroine...