Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left McCall's in 1927 after five brilliantly successful years, joined Cosmopolitan in 1931. McCall Co.'s other big magazine and Cosmopolitan's rival, Redbook, has been edited since 1927 by quick-thinking Edwin Balmer, who finds time on the side to write many a popular novel, many of them in collaboration with a prolific Redbook contributor, Princeton's Philip Wylie...
...Robert E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman's four-volume, definitive R. E. Lee (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) appeared, blew his house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from...
FORTY CENTURIES LOOK DOWN - F. Britten Austin-Stokes ($2.50). Historically accurate, interesting but awkward novel of Napoleon's military and marital strategies in the Egyptian Campaign of 1798; the second installment of bold Romancer Austin's super-serial covering Napoleon's major campaigns...
...most perfectly developed man" was once described in an article by one Alan Carse as having confessed to a gathering of mail order strongmen at Atlantic City that the only reason he sold his courses without equipment was that after having advertised he could think of no novel item to offer. When the customers began to complain to the postal authorities he simply had to give them something, so he gave them "dynamic tension." Vastly annoyed, Mr. Atlas complained to the Federal Trade Commission. Subsequently Mr. Hoffman cheerfully admitted that there was no one by the name of Alan Carse...
...life in Saratoga. Readers who flinch at phantoms need have no fear. Author Brinig is content with summoning his ghosts, asks them no embarrassing questions. A chronicle with no discernible moral, message or meaning-except that 1904 has gone forever-The Sisters is a good but not Great American Novel...