Word: novels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German Novelist Leonhard Frank adapted this play from his novel of the same name. Despite the subtle services of Alice Brady, making her Guild debut, and of Otto Kruger and Frank Conroy, the weird passion of Karl and Anna remains fabulous, as insubstantial as the fictions of Graustark...
...eighth novel, Robert Nathan makes gentle fun of the discrepancy between Christian faith and Christian observation. His hero Levy, yearning after the Christ, changes his name to Lewis. Crossing the River Jordan he arrives, not in the land of milk and honey, but in a welter of May parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much...
...luckier author. For the "class of 1902" to which Author Glaeser belonged, was the German Army designation for those born in 1902 who, aged 12-16 in 1914-18, were just about to be called to the Western Front when the Armistice was signed. Thus Author Glaeser remained, his novel remains, behind the Front...
...none of her husband if he insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless to say, they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style that many found so "brave" in The Wind Bloweth, so "radiant" in Messer Marco Polo, so "heart-wringing" in O'Malley of Shanganagh, so "tender" in Blind Raftery...
...depiction of War, the novel bears comparison with its best predecessors. But it is in the hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings...