Word: saga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flowering Wilderness" is more than the sequel to "Maid-in-Waiting" it is a direct descendant of the great "Forsyte Saga," and the best thing Mr. Gals-worthy has witted since then. Like those books, it provokes such an interest in its characters that one cannot bear to put it aside for a moment. No matter what one's personal reactions are to Wilfred's recantation in the desert, to Dinny's falling in love with him despite everyone's disapproval, to Jack Muskham's meddling in their affairs to picture any other denouement. The answer to the riddle apparently...
Tremont Temple--"Sinbad, the Sailor." Tony Sarg's Marionettes. A saga with some strings attached...
FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50 ). Many a reader who was captivated by the Forsyte Saga into following cheerfully at Author Galsworthy's heels wishes now that his leader would sit down and take a well-earned rest. Having finally, after several backward glances, parted from the Forsytes, Galsworthy has now taken up with the Cherrells. has fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time...
...Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr. He says he never reads reviews of his books. The two books he most admires are Moby Dick and The Nigger of the Narcissus. His next book will be The Snopes Saga, for which he gives himself two years...
...SAGA or FRIDTJOF NANSEX-Jon Sorensen-Norton...