Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion...
Manners & Morals. All in all, the best novels of the year came from Britain. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was a grim warning of what the latter stages of statism could be like. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination...
NON-FICTION The war, the uneasy peace and the many-directioned search for personal and world repose accounted for most of the year's best-read books. No war books achieved the popularity of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston...
The Big Fisherman, Lloyd Douglas Mary, Sholem Asch The Egyptian, Mika Waltari A Rage to Live, John O'Hara Point of No Return, John Marquand
Seasonal. In San Antonio, a sunburned Santa Claus refused to continue work in Joske's outdoor toyland until the store shaded his chuckwagon throne with an awning.