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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result fails of inclusion in any of the three categories of the old saw. What is more important, Wiglerus' character keeps "Hamlet Had an Uncle" from being a rather good transcription of a saga, and the unfriendly world keeps Wiglerus from making his story a typical Cabell novel...

Author: By Milton Crane, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

...been, on the whole, congenial. For a writer of Mr. Cabell's peculiar gifts, the world of his own imagining was the most comfortable. Certainly his attempt to restore a world and a story which have been clouded over by Shakespeare's play makes neither sense nor a good novel. He may say of Poictesme, as Touchstone once said, "When I I was at home, I was in a better place...

Author: By Milton Crane, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

Four hours ago I stood waiting for a train at Jackson, in Breathitt County. I had just read TIME'S generous words for my first novel, River of Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...novel attempt to study the results of four years' training at Harvard the Senior Album Committee plans a vast survey of the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey of Seniors Is Planned For Feature in Class Album | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...half (with foreign distribution). That would make a handsome profit for Distributor (and part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International), who split a reputed 70% of the box-office gross. And since the book on which it was based was the fastest selling U. S. novel, it would also copper-rivet GWTW as the all-time hard-cash classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Record Wind | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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