Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters in Philip Wylie's new novel include: the amiable madam of a New York call-house, two warm-hearted call-house girls, a nuclear physicist whose atomic know-how is equaled only by his abysmal no-know-how where dames are concerned, a woman who has run away from her botanist husband because she caught him kissing another man in the conservatory, and a Wylie version of Jesus Christ, his name abbreviated to Chris, who shows up in a persistent but inconclusive dream about a B-29 on an A-bomb run. Most of the action takes place...
...Feodor Dostoevsky, then 51 and already famous as the author of Crime and Punishment, decided to become a newspaperman again. He had tried it before, without much success. In fact, journalism was a bad choice for a man who needed all the elbow room of the Russian novel for self-expression. But Dostoevsky felt full of miscellaneous ideas and Messianic urges, and besides, he needed the money. When the aristocratic and crotchety Prince Meshchersky offered him a job as editor of The Citizen (salary: 250 rubles a month), Dostoevsky accepted...
...charges Nuclear Physicist Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
...explain how the bulls affect the lives of the people who work with them, how the spirit of the fight captures the toreador, how he rassles with fear, and how fear sometimes wins. This picture of a peoples' spirit behind the great pageant of the corrida required a novel. Tom Lea called his novel "The Brave Bulls...
...door near the entrance to every apartment house in Paris sits a well-upholstered Cerberus who can purr contentedly or breathe fire at will. She (usually it is a she) is the Parisian concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...