Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lastly, a new program should be developed in conjunction with the second semester's work. While small conference groups should be retained as the fundamental organization, it would be an excellent idea to have weekly lectures given by specialists in certain fields, such as the drama, the novel, the poem, or the essay. Certainly the English Department has such specialists. These men, of necessity, would emphasize the form of each type of literature, but precisely what the student needs is an insight into the mechanics of writing and the organization of ideas...
...second published novel, The Street of the Fishing Cat, Hungarian Author Jolanda Foldes won the $19,000 All-Nations Prize offered by U. S. & foreign publishers, a cinema corporation...
...Anderson, sometimes that of William Faulkner in his less melodramatic moments, The Tallons is the work of a novelist whose increasingly powerful talent most alert readers will want to watch. Born in Mobile, Ala. in 1894, William March, whose real name is William E. March Campbell, published his first novel, Company K, three years ago, followed it with a strong but uneven study of the psychological effects of a lynching in Come in at the Door. Educated at the University of Alabama, Author March served in the U. S. Marine Corps during the War, got a job with Waterman Steamship...
Someone has complained that foreign correspondents ought to stick to "personal histories" and non-fiction instead of messing around in a game that belongs to professional novelists. If all foreign correspondents could write as good a novel as "Sanfelice," I shouldn't agree...
...Nelson, and the nefarious Acton, privy councillor, are skillfully contrasted with the populace of Naples, aristocrats, shopkeepers, servants, and the appalling "Iazzarone", who lived like beasts in filthy holes by the sea, coming out only at night or when there was looting to be done. Vincent Sheean's first novel is excellent. Never, as the jacket-blurb says, actually anti-historical, it is an impressive demonstration of the mingling in just proportion of literal fact and educated imagination...