Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath of old settlers, neighbors...
...Adventure, sequel to Arctic Adventure, covers the period from 1924, when Freuchen went home to Denmark, till 1932, when he went to Alaska with a Hollywood cinema crew to film his novel Eskimo. Domesticated in Denmark, Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine...
...best-selling novel usually outsells a best-selling work of nonfiction, two to one. Last month Lin Yutang's philosophic miscellany of Chinese wisdom, The Importance of Living, was the only book that sold equally well in New York City and San Francisco, in Chicago and Dallas, Tex. And although its total sale fell slightly short of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, it was head and shoulders above rivals in its own field, and the only work of non-fiction in the past season to sell on the scale of best-selling novels...
...falling on this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...
This accurate historical novel of Baron Ungern-Sternberg's last days is for readers whose literary will power is as strong as their stomachs. Written in the tradition of the conventional Russian novel, with almost eye-witness vividness, it ranks in intensity if not in scope with Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front...