Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enters a really critical situation nor spoils a perfectly rounded and intensely dramatic picture of grief. Andreyev's humor is under control at all times. In his use of symbolism he is elusive to an almost irritating point, and then again he will be as clear as the boldest realist...
...tale he tells is of a woman who, finding that romance and the fullness of life will never come to knock at her door, ventures out in search of them. Told by a realist, the emphasis would have been laid upon the sordid details, upon the tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters...
...reply to the question as to whether there would be any enduring classic among the realist novels of today, Mr. Lincoln said that he thought not. "Those books have lasted," he declared,, "which have been written with more than a little regard for what might be called the humanities. All through the history of literature you will find this to be true. It is for this reason that Shakespeare's plays are still read and his characters still widely known, while the works of almost all of his contemporaries have long ago been forgotten. It is for this reason that...
...will find, on the whole," said Mr. Lincoln, "that people like to have an affectionate feeling for the characters they meet in books, but this they cannot do when the characters are treated in such a way as they are in the realist novels of today. This is another reason why these novels will not last, for while people may call a sad or unpleasant book powerful, they will scarcely care to renew their acquaintance with...