Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and a new unpublished novel, The Third Man, by Graham Greene...
...Forest was so much better than so many writers who are famous that readers may reasonably wonder why they never heard of him before. De Forest was a Connecticut Yankee who married a Charleston girl and raised and captained a Connecticut company throughout the Civil War. His war novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion (TIME, Aug. 21, 1939)> a failure when first published, went unread for nearly 72 years. His personal story of the Civil War, A Volunteer's Adventures (TIME, July 22, 1946), was published for the first time two years ago. Now it appears that there...
This is the setting that Jean Malaquais has chosen for his huge and exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other...
...Author. Jean Malaquais is a short, tense French socialist. He is the author of a novel, Men from Nowhere, which won the Renaudot Prize in Paris, and of an account of his experiences in the French army, War Diary, which André Gide hailed as "an extraordinary document on the collapse of France...
...less convincing than his peculiar role, that of a forgetful, confused, rich and good-looking Viennese composer. He lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...