Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published a novel about a boy and his pet, a doomed young fawn. It won the Pulitzer Prize and passed into many editions. The most valuable remains the version decorated with paintings by N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), the great illustrator of Robin Hood and Treasure Island. Now, as a Reissued Classic, The Yearling (Scribners; $19.95) is again available. Once more the tragic but redeeming life of the Florida backcountry is illuminated by a giant of the genre...
...That (1929), was more than a parting shot at an England he could no longer abide. Graves intended the book to stir outrage and sales, and he succeeded. Settled in splendid self-exile on the Spanish island of Majorca, he countered mounting debts by writing the historical novel I, Claudius...
...curious how a novel is there waiting to fall off a tree, and you have to be there to catch it," explains Carlos Fuentes, 57, who waited nearly 30 years for The Old Gringo to ripen into his twelfth novel. His patience has paid off. This week, a month after being published in English, it becomes the first novel by a Mexican to be a best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo...
Charles Dickens died having finished only half of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and that tantalizing incompleteness has prompted countless attempts to round off the novel's Gothic plot. The story echoes Dickens' familiar themes of unspoken sexual obsession, middle-class hypocrisy and the crushing burden of guilty secrets. It also contains some of his wittiest portraits of pomp and vanity. Fans of the book will look in vain for more than vague resemblances in the amiable musical version that opened on Broadway last week. Composer- Author Rupert Holmes has framed Drood within a Victorian music-hall pastiche...
Taken on its own terms, however, Drood is vivacious, funny and richly tuneful, and it has an irresistible gimmick: the song and dance comes to a halt in mid-syllable to mark where Dickens' novel breaks off. The audience then votes to select the murderer and therefore the ending. This do-it- yourself detection has been honed since last summer's tryout by Director Wilford Leach and Choreographer Graciela Daniele, the team that made a zonked- out Pirates of Penzance a 1981 Broadway triumph. Fully half of Holmes' songs are instantly hummable, notably the sweet Perfect Strangers and the plucky...