Word: willa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNDER FORTY-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). Brief collection of six quiet Prose pieces ranging from an essay on Thomas Mann to a memoir of Sarah Orne Jewett, including a few personal recollections by the most reticent of contemporary novelists. The title means that the book "will not interest persons under 40 years of age." VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES-Stanton...
LUCY GAYHEART- Willa Cather- Knopf...
...PROUST-Havelock Ellis-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Before the Nobel Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock Ellis. Now almost...
With Three Cities Sholem Asch displayed an ability to create a broad social panorama, drew a comprehensive picture of Jewish life in Warsaw and Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Mottke the Thief, excellently translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, reveals a fresh aspect of Sholem Asch's talent, tells a lively, picturesque tale of a Jewish vagabond who bounded among the pillars and posts of pre-War Polish society. Before Mottke was born his jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married...
...will henceforth be expanded and enlarged, "the prize offer will be multiplied several times." Well might Country Home grow enthusiastic over their crossroads correspondents. Excerpts from the contributions displayed genuine simplicity, natural beauty, instinctive truth. As intuitive a piece of insight into the female character as ever came from Willa Gather was the report of Deborah Whitaker on her trip to New Hampshire's Governor's Ball, as published in the Milford Cabinet & Wilton Journal. A poultrywoman on the verge of the event of her life. Mrs. Whitaker entered the ballroom, "closed our eyes and breathed a prayer...