Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among contemporary American literary men, Edmund Wilson is a natural critic in the way that some writers are natural poets. He turns experience into critical formulations as poets turn them into verse. Even his novel, I Thought of Daisy, drifts into well-phrased critical discussions of the ideas held by its characters-although Daisy herself, a matter-of-fact, cheerful chorus girl, entertains ideas and men that no other important U. S. critic would try to analyze...
...SINGLE HOUND-May Sarton- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Plaintive first novel by a 26-year-old poetess, in which an aging spinster in a Belgian garden brings peace to a tormented young Englishman, emotionally ravaged by an affair with a married woman...
...story is told in the person of Bayard. As the scene opens, he is a boy of twelve, and the style is juvenile. As the novel progresses, the style becomes more mature, and the final result is the rich and colorful prose characteristic of Faulkner's previous works. This book should take its place as a worthy successor to Absalom, Absalom...
...influence upon undergraduates in the field of English was once compared by his students to that of Barrett Wendell. Among his books have been "Mark Twain's America," "Forays and Rebuttals," a collection of essays, and a novel, "We Accept with Pleasure...
FATHERLAND FAREWELL!-Gosta Larsson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Solid novel about Swedish working-class life before the War, centring on the great emigration to the U. S. Its well-studied hero is an ambitious young engineer who struggles against his lower-class destiny, tries unsuccessfully to escape...