Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lustiness of the ancient dramatic will have to be toned down in order to harmonize with the more inhibited modern stage, and lest the novel case arise of a play in Greek censored by the local Watch and Ward society. All the obscene paraphernalia will be omitted, but, the officers say, "there will be no departure from strict archaeological exactitude...
...bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant demand for nonsense"; and "How Big," a section illustrating the relative size of things: of for example...
Very definitely Rebecca belongs not to the realistic but to the romantic tradition of the novel. As such it is not to be compared with Oedipus Rex (although most readers are likely to find it a good deal harder to lay down than Oedipus), but like Oedipus it is basically a horror story, and like Oedipus it unrolls forward and backward simultaneously, each new revelation of the past driving the story forward...
This first novel moves at such a rate, contains so many fights, explosions, ambushes, traps, gun battles and get aways that even devoted lovers of adventure stories are likely to find themselves dazed by it. It begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...
...story-illustrating it himself-in a five-cent composition book. Son of the Memphis manager of the Continental Can Co., David is now in the sixth grade, plays tennis, wants a typewriter, and leans heavily on Ritta, the Statler cook, for literary criticism and guidance. Working on his first novel, Author Statler sought inspiration between chapters in a way open to very few novelists: rushing out, side, playing cowboys and Indians with his younger brother...