Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retail Bookseller confidently predicted that a new novel, Parris Mitchell of Kings Row, would be a bestseller. "It has everything in it that made its predecessor [Kings Row] sell: horror, sex, madness and depravity-all handled with dignity and restraint...
...custom dictates; that she can ever be his concubine Jewish law forbids. Peony decides that she must divert David from Leah, the Jewish girl "fairer than any lily," whom Madame Ezra wishes him to marry, and steer him to Kueilan, an empty-headed Chinese beauty. She succeeds; and the novel's titillating climax comes as she prepares the gorgeous marriage bed for David and Kueilan."Through this wedding night she would lie wakeful, her spirit in that other room, hovering over David...
...exhumations which have been carried on in his literary graveyard in the past ten years. The latest tombstone to be lifted has been pried up by the publishing house of Macmillan, which once spurned his writing as "honest scribble work and no more." The Princess Casamassima is a long novel which James wrote in 1886 and which critics of the day buried on the spot...
...Princess will startle readers who think of James, the expatriate, as the man who was saddened because his own U.S. had "no sovereign, no court, no aristocracy . . . nor manors, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins." It is a novel of explicit social significance, about London's anarchist workers and their starry-eyed aristocratic sympathizers. Columbia Professor Lionel Trilling, in a 15,000-word introduction to The Princess, credits James with "a first-rate rendering of literal social reality." But the reader will probably feel that for all James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people...
Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...