Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest novel of Henry Bellamann (Kings Row, TIME, April 15, 1940) is a mystery. What wrecked the Grandolets' marriage? The reader cannot be sure, and perhaps the author himself was far from certain...
...Robe ($2.75) is a simple, 700-page novel laid in the time of Christ, by a prolific writer of moral tales whose messages are so direct and earnest that they embarrass most reviewers. The Apostle ($3) is a fictional reconstruction of the life & times of St. Paul...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...
...Jesse Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie ($2.75), in which a story of a Kentucky mountain child's uncanny poetic observation was curdled by a burlesque-show farce of life among his elders. The brilliant portraits of anti-Soviet Author Mark Aldanov's Russian novel, The Fifth Seal ($3), were blurred in the diffuse and incoherent story...
High-ranking among 1943's novels, less by its own accomplishment than because of the mixed quality of the year's fiction, was Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure ($2). By no means equal to his Darkness At Noon, Koestler's latest novel was a graphic account of the sufferings of an ex-Communist for whom a sardonic psychoanalyst tries to provide an easy way out of the struggle against Fascism...