Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among panel topics are "The Hero in the Novel," and "Homer: The Background and the Recently Discovered Mycenian Writing...
...knows it. In his latest picture. The World, the Flesh and the Devil, to be released in April, he is co-starred with Mel Ferrer and Inger Stevens as one of the three survivors of an earth-shattering atomic disaster (the script is based roughly on a prophetic 1902 novel entitled The Purple Cloud). By all reports, despite a clumsy story it is Belafonte's best acting job to date. Writer-Director Ranald MacDougall was surprised by Belafonte's chameleon ability to take on the emotional coloration of almost any scene he was playing. At one point Belafonte...
...library will have twice the shelf space necessary at present, thus allowing for expansion. Eventual plans may include special rapid loan service, a closed-circuit television system, and novel centralized cataloguing, Esterquest said that the lighting plans and study-stalls in the new building will be like those in Lamont...
Without some such mental preamble, the saga of Eugene Henderson, the quixotic hero of Saul (The Adventures of Augie March) Bellow's new novel, is apt to seem little more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family...
Tolstoy's short novel. Family Happiness, is no War and Peace, and for purposes of television adaptation that may be an entirely good thing; with Jean Pierre Aumont, Gloria Vanderbilt...