Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mobilized at the beginning of the war, French Novelist Philippe Heriat found himself on duty guarding the Goncourt subway station in Paris. Fortnight ago, the name took on a new meaning for Novelist Heriat. He won the Goncourt Prize (5,000 francs), France's highest annual award for fiction...
...Fiction: Scholem Asch's "The Nazarene" is a fine and compelling account of the life of Christ, occasionally marred by the somewhat unnecessary framework. . . . As for Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," we are silent and abashed. Let him who can think of a better category for this experiment in language classify it for himself. . . Lin Yutang's "Moment in Peking" offers a glimpse into the world of a Chinese whose views on himself, life and the Occident have gained him a wide following. Don't take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John...
...literature." Within the next few years they had introduced to U. S. readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising...
...Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession by reading Midland Teacher, organ of the State Teachers' Association. She also likes to read fiction, recently read Drums Along the Mohawk and Grapes of Wrath. She thought Grapes of Wrath "too frank...
...articles on his program N.Y. Her-Trib Dec. 21 '36, Feb. 20 '30 N.Y. WLD Telg'm July 10 '39 editl pp Amer Federalist Mch 1027--Cleveland Leader called his Nature poems of boyhood "perfect": Glasgow Her and Edinburgh Scotsmen: "best America has ever produced." Re his war poems & fiction he was called "the Kipling of the World war and the China Coast" by Montreal Star May 17 1030 p 27: Nat'l mag. Boston Nov t0 15 Metrop magaz N.Y. A. B. Moore...