Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister David Lloyd George to observe the new Soviet Russia, young Bullitt returned to have his report (recommending recognition of the Soviets) ignored and himself denounced by Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons. For the next 14 years Bill Bullitt occupied his time writing a violent expatriate novel, getting psychoanalyzed in Vienna, divorced twice. If his old friend Franklin Roosevelt had not won the Presidency, Bill Bullitt might still be sitting around Paris at loose ends...
...Arrowsmith, his famed novel about the medical profession, Yaleman Sinclair Lewis pilloried pretentious scientists by describing an imaginary and phony temple of science called McGurk Institute on Manhattan's Cedar Street. Arrowsmith was published before the founding of Yale University's Institute of Human Relations, but by a luckless coincidence Yale's Institute in New Haven also stands on a Cedar Street. Yale's Institute has many critics who make the most of that coincidence...
...humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the tragic and comic are not conflicting elements, but intermingle to make up life itself...
...true to him although denounced as lies by his aunt. She teaches him that it is wicked to tell any lies (even though they are true). As an adolescent he is beset by many painful and humorous experiences, which make up one of the most revealing parts of the novel...
...Marquis had not finished the novel before his death. He intended to have Jack break away go to New York, and perhaps to Europe to fight in the World War. When Don Marquis tried to follow Jack from Hazelton to New York, he was beaten. He could not go on, for to break away from Hazelton society in the last few chapters would certainly not be wholly satisfactory. "Sons of the Puritans", as it stands now, is more than satisfactory...