Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prizewinning dream" (TIME, March 6) demonstrates better than anything we can write or say the type of mentality which has been attracted to Quisling in Occupied Norway. . . . The rubbery highflying fantasy of the tale ... is reminiscent of another "classic" in the history of Norwegian letters. I refer to the "novel" that came from the pen of Charles Hoff, onetime world champion pole vaulter, shortly after he returned to Norway after his escapades in America. Hoff's story ended with an earthquake destroying Manhattan, and with the poor but honest hero marrying the multimillionaire's daughter. Yes, you guessed...
...having trouble with the Manhattan police. His publisher (Vanguard Press) was visited by four different parties of cops who professed to see a connection between Wayne Lonergan and Studs Lonigan. Later a cop from a prowl car tried shyly to buy a copy of the novel from a First Avenue bookshop. It was out of stock...
...This novel is Volume II of a massive work, The Disinherited, in which the author of Anthony Adverse is reconstructing a fictional history of the early U.S. in a series of six books roughly corresponding to the stages in which the colonial frontier jumped from the Atlantic Seaboard across the Appalachian Mountains...
...last outpost of the frontier. Two thousand settlers crowded under the walls of its fort. Around the village in every direction "stretched the illimitable forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...
...will find Boston a city of contrasts. In the very same week that a new novel is banned and thirteen men are arrested for "gaming on the Lord's day," you will find Errol Flynn's successor getting a big play in the newspapers and the Tassel Queen still reigning supreme...