Word: novels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomorrow. He believes that our life is passed in a world of things, everywhere are things, things. And so having collected catalogues of all descriptions,--of perfumes, automobiles, furniture, cigarettes,--with the aid of a few characters he will piece together this data, and that will be the great novel...
...SHOW by McCready Huston. Scribner's, New York, $2. This is a novel of a man whose boyhood was spent with a circus and whose manhood was passed in the contemplation of circuses of many kinds, including his own life. His viewpoint sets him both in and out of the events he witnessed and gives the author a chance thus, to portray a character with unusual completeness...
...Miss Becky Sharp" in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair attends a school known as Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. Few know that "Miss Pink's" is a real school. It celebrated last week its 100th anniversary, at Eastbourne, whence the school was removed some years ago from the original site in Chiswick Mall, London...
...argued that this novel science of business is, like the moving picture, in its infancy; that all is being taught that has been formulated into anything like teaching--that the rest will come and until then one must be content with the rudiments. This is possibly true but such an explanation does not account for the fact that the requirements for a Business School degree are to be met in only two years time. If the second year, which in strict proportion should be as valuable as the first and which in theory should be even more so, is only...
...Author in her critical studies, The Common Reader, made it apparent that her analytical abilities outweighed her previous achievements in fiction, Jacob's Room, Night and Day. But Mrs. Dalloway and this book mark her as one who has not only mastered the novel but extended its function...