Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written. Yet critics are likely to disagree for a long time to come over the question of whether The Last Puritan deserves to be reckoned with great U. S. fiction, whether it should even be considered a novel at all. Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece. Evil for Hawthorne's puritans was intense, powerful, a demon to be fought. For Santayana's characters it is distant, abstract, a moral problem to be solved like geometry. Thus the characters in The Last Puritan are real...
INNOCENT SUMMER-Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...
...which an innocent man is in danger of being executed. If it had general application, if it depicted the mental process of all murderers, we would have no unsolved murders. We must presume the perpetrators of the unsolved crimes have neither consciences nor nerves, thus the "Crime and Punishment" theme cannot apply to them...
...very able freshman, whom I have known from childhood, has been laboring diligently on theme writing. There are times when he would forego a week's spending money to be rid of his weekly task of writing an English A theme. The youth has been doing exceedingly well in his other courses, but his marks on English A themes have not matched his other course grades. Partly to encourage him and partly to save him the long night hours, which 1, as a freshman theme writer spent grudgingly and fruitlessly, I have tried to help him. At first our united...
...story has been faithfully recorded with a little telescoping that does no harm to continuity or theme. The only discrepancy that is really noticeable is the complication between Carton and Barsad which becomes necessary because a double for Coleman could not be found to take the part of Charles Darnay and the identification of Darnay had to be frustrated by a species of blackmail over the witness, instead of the genuine resemblance between Carton and Darnay. It is also unfortunate that the movie magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens...