Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lean Men Ralph Bates wrote an involved and melodramatic story about the Spanish revolution, painting vivid pictures of Spanish working-class life and weakening his story with long discussions of art and philosophy. More involved than that promising first novel, The Olive Field similarly contains much that most readers will want to skip, but it also contains a narrative forceful enough to carry readers beyond dull spots, presents a general picture of revolutionary Spain that seems to square with modern Spanish history...
...relate these minutiae of contemporary experience to the broad sweep of historical developments has been the task, for the past ten years, of a novelist named John Roderigo Dos Passes. Last week Author Dos Passos, 40, offered readers a novel called The Big Money* that stood midway between history and fiction, the last of a series of three books that constitute a private, unofficial history of the U. S. from...
...spaced throughout the three volumes. The author provides, in addition, a shorthand autobiography in the form of 51 poetic interludes, called The Camera Eye, which show his own attitude toward the events in which his characters are involved. Like most works of fiction that are written in tandem, each novel in Dos Passos' series makes sense in its own right, gains in cumulative intensity if read in its place in the whole impressive scheme...
...Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism. With Manhattan Transfer (1925), in which he started experimenting with the form he later perfected in The 42nd Parallel, his literary reputation was solidly established. Besides his novels, he has written two books of travel, a volume of essays, a volume of verse, three plays, translated Poet Blaise Cendrars from the French and adapted a novel by Pierre Louys for the cinema (The Devil Is a Woman...
Last week these hard years in Mohawk history provided the background for a 592-page historical novel that, unlike most such volumes, was most interesting for its accounts of the unconventional military maneuvers of savages and settlers, least impressive in its pictures of frontier romance. The August choice of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, Drums Along the Mohawk belongs in the imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their...