Dodsworth is the story an American businessman’s midlife crisis.
Archive for July, 2009
Dodsworth: Two themes in one cover
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Psychological novel, tagged automobile industry, culture wars, England, European culture, Sinclair Lewis, Yale University on July 29, 2009 | Comments Off
All Still Disquieting in WWI Tale
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, My Top Pics, Psychological novel, War, tagged Germany, Erica Maria Remarque, World War I, soldiers, trench warfare on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque takes readers into the German trenches of World War I. As long as nations send their young people straight from schoolyards to combat zones, All Quiet on the Western Front will continue to be an important book.
1929 bestselling novels
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s time to revisit the novels that were bestsellers in 1929, the year when the stock market crashed plunging America into the Great Depression.
I haven’t been able to locate all the novels on the list, but those I’ve found have been fascinating. Here in order are the 1929 top 10, led by a classic novel [...]
My 5 top picks of 1939’s top 10 novels
Posted in My Top Pics, tagged John Steinbeck, The Yearling, The Grapes of Wrath, Escape, Rebecca, Kitty Foyle, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ethel Vance, Daphne du Murier, Christopher Morley on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Of the top ten bestselling novels for 1939, five are still super reading today.
Doctors Lock Horns in Service of Science
Posted in 1939 Bestselling Novels, Medical, Religious, Romance, tagged China, Lloyd C. Douglas, Medical research, scientists on July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
No one would mistake Lloyd C. Douglas’ Disputed Passage for literature, but the plot and characters are far above the pot boiler level.
Kitty Foyle is smart, sassy realist
Posted in 1939 Bestselling Novels, Coming of age, Fictional memoir, Romance on July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
You’ll like Kitty Foyle, laugh at her wry, self-protective wisecracks, and wish her love.
The Nazarene Is Bizarre
Posted in 1939 Bestselling Novels, Historical, Religious, tagged Catholics, crucifixion, first century AD, Nicodemus, Scholem Asch, Warsaw on July 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Sholem Asch’s The Nazarene is a bizarre retelling of the story of Jesus of Nazareth by two first century characters whose souls are transmigrated to 1930s Warsaw.
