Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theme. Mental illness is no novel subject for the movies. Hollywood has long since taken note of modern man's discovery, and worship, of the subconscious-that obscure force which has become more fashionable than God's or man's will as an explanation of all human acts. Various types of mental sickness (amnesia, etc.) have been used and used again as springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague...
...done much reading of American fiction? We were both sort of jumping up and down with impatience by now. The hotel maid came out in the hall to watch. "Oh my yes," replied Miss Cam to my question, "I much admire Dorothy Canfield and I read a novel about New Orleans--what was it? which I liked very much." She picked up the phone and smiled with anticipation. As I walked down the dark hallway, past the still inquisitive chambermaid, I could hear Helen Mand Cam in process of accepting another invitation to speak. No dust will settle while...
...this point, when he had gathered much of his material and learned life in the wilderness and among the Indians at first hand, his health gave way. He overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a horse. He wrote a novel-the sort of book, said Van Wyck Brooks, read only by friends of the author -and The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, but the great epic of exploration and conquest that he visualized was not even begun...
...first novel, Martha Bacon has given this theme a modern twist. While Henry James sometimes saw American innocence as a fresh and gracious stimulant to overcultivated Europe, kiss Bacon deals with a situation in which the irresponsibility of Americans causes a tragedy for Europeans...
These implications are capably handled by Miss Bacon, but they are often too heavy a burden for the frail frame of her novel. Still, as a first novel, A Star Called Wormwood is a notable performance...