Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graham Greene, good-looking, slender, 33, is a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. His first novel, The Man Within (1929), a psychological study of a cowardly smuggler, bore strong resemblances to Treasure Island. His psychological-action novels have continued to show a Stevenson influence. But though he got off to a flying start with his Stevenson inheritance, he has never been able to travel...
...best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition...
...handle advertising and employe and public relations preparatory to "running things before long in cooperation with my brother." His chief ambition is to restore Waterman to the No. 1 position in the industry now held by Parker Pen Co. He hopes this will not prevent his writing a novel or two on the side. When he writes he scrupulously uses a Waterman...
Born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1894, Poet Cummings first made his literary presence felt with a novel, The Enormous Room (1922), written after he had served in an ambulance unit and as a private in the World War. Readers of the book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life in an internment camp, were aware that something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time...
...favorite, a popular failure. According to Rebecca West she is "one of the few people really original we have produced since the War." According to Clifton Fadiman she is "the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf." If readers ignore her latest novel, House of All Nations, they will have to do so in the way a pedestrian ignores a landslide in the road-by walking around...