Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enchantment (Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a film version of Rumer Godden's novel Take Three Tenses, is a tear-squeezer which shuttles back & forth between blitz-time London and the gay old '90s. The link is an aged general (David Niven) come home to dream-and to warn the young 'uns against making the same mistakes he did. This leads to so many flashbacks that Enchantment might have sent its audiences into St. Vitus' dance, had it not been for Cameraman Gregg Toland, who completed the picture a few weeks before he died (TIME...
This psychological cripple, whom the reader meets after his ship has been sunk and he has drifted on to one of the Solomon Islands, is the hero of War Correspondent Ira Wolfert's intricate second novel...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...
Connolly is chiefly concerned with "the artist," and with what makes him tick, and stop ticking. Why, asks Connolly, does young "Mr. Shelleyblake" write a first novel that the critics hail as bursting with "promise"-only to find that in his next novels young Shelleyblake fails to deliver the promised goods? Is the broken promise the fault of Shelleyblake himself, or of his critics, or of the world in which he writes...
Daddy In the Mines. Connolly's answer, which spreads the blame over a wide area, is written lightly, wittily, and with essential gloom. Mr. Shelleyblake's first novel is generated by a youthful vigor and freshness ; it stands out from the tired works of his older contemporaries. The publisher is pleased, and promptly asks Mr. Shelleyblake if he is at work on Opus 2. Mr. Shelleyblake is too shy, or too ambitious, or too much in need of money to admit that having just blown his top in Opus i he hasn't got enough steam...