Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson for the Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth scored a clean 97-missing three...
...creative literature [TRANSITION] . . . wants to substitute for the short story and the novel such forms as the modern magic tale, the myth, the legend, the dream, the saga, the folktale...
Last week readers had an opportunity to learn about Atlanta's history in an imposing first novel chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for July. The work of a young Atlanta newspaperwoman, Gone With the Wind is remarkable in other ways than its extreme length. In its 1,037 pages Margaret Mitchell has pictured pre-Civil War plantation life, the disintegration of Southern society during the War, the siege of Atlanta, the chaos of Reconstruction, the emergence of industrialism with its high-pressure rivalries, employment problems, money standards, as the plantation system gave way; the persistence...
...fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty...
Lester Cohen was born 34 years ago in Chicago, wrote a novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths...