Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giovannis' impromptu adventures, but the author's inexhaustible narrative gusto describing them, make this novel standard Dumas...
...Poet Gerard de Nerval sent a friend to Dumas. His name was Auguste Maquet. He brought Dumas a rough draft of an historical novel, soon published in two volumes as Le Bonhomme Buvat by Alexandre Dumas. Said Dumas: "The two most amusing volumes I have ever written." Maquet's name did not appear on the books. He got about...
...Maquet brought Dumas the rough draft of a novel about a Guardsman named D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers had been born...
...Novel in the aspect that this will be the first Class election in which votes by mail are recorded, the balloting here will be handled by the present Freshmen Committee which will deposit Thursday's votes with the PBH Graduate Secretary for the present...
Victoria Grandolet is an uneven, atmosphere-saturated novel, expertly written, distinguished by some subtle shadings in its portraits, and weakened by an overemphasis on the romanticism of the Old South. It is noteworthy because there might seem to be no earthly reason why this story of married life should come to its unhappy end. The story proceeds from highly complicated causes to effects that are always more than a little ambiguous. But in its account of the silent, invisible, termite undermining of affection and trust, the ghastly cost of the withholding of truth between man and wife, Victoria Grandolet makes...