Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vandalism. Because it believes that Dead Souls is too gloomy a title to sell one of the funniest books ever written, the Readers Club has just published its improved translation of Nikolai Gogol's great satirical novel with what it considers an improved title: Chichicov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia...
...published in Vogue) Gertrude told. Part of the time she hoes potatoes in the little peasant village of Billignin par Belley Ain in Unoccupied France. Food is scarce. The peasants idolize her: she is one expatriate who did not run away from defeated France. She is also writing a novel, called Mrs. Reynolds. Both Hitler and Stalin are in it. Gertrude has already written 25 pages. Alice B. Toklas is typing them. Gertrude believes the novel will not be finished for some time. Wrote Gertrude: "You know I did start to write about how America looks to Europe...
Author Huie, now associate editor of the American Mercury, has written one of the best novels about the "Roosevelt Generation," might have written a better one if he were not so close to his subject. As a rudely realistic story of what has happened to the Tennessee Valley and to Alabama under the New Deal, his novel is an exciting footnote to current history...
...Harvard Film Society goes into New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock again tonight on its accelerated program. The pictures are Dostoyevaski's "Crime and Punishment" and "Tanks." the famous OEM documentary of the production war. The Society is showing Pierre Blauchard's French version of a Russian novel not for its snob appeal, the Executive Committee states, but "because students want to see good pictures, as they have during the Society's six-year existence...
...Novel Meet Thursday...