Book-of-the-Month Club

Since the American Book-of-the-Month Club wanted to distribute the book if publication could be speeded up, MR corrected proofs over the transatlantic telephone (then very imperfect). She found the process exhausting and frustrating.

She felt that her second volume had been a failure, and this made it very hard to go on. Then Heinemann , with low expectations for sales and set back by the stark undiluted tragedy...

Cyril Connolly expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...

The Good Earth was a Book of the Month Club choice, on the recommendation of Dorothy Canfield Fisher , who had sat up all night reading it. It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...

There was a widespread feeling that VSW had been too circumspect and scholarly. Virginia Woolf told Vita that she found the book solid, strong, satisfactory, but wished she had allowed herself a...

The US edition of Mrs. Miniver became a roaring success long before the film was thought of. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and the publishers were eager to get JS to tour America to...

The Three Daughters of Madame Liang was chosen by the Book of the Month Club and by the Readers Digest (for a condensed version). Spurling located the value of this book and Letter from Peking...

This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole regretted its lack of plot.James Agate uncharacteristically wrote: All the time I was reading it I purred like my...

The novel was nominated for the 1926 Prix Femina, and was the first selection of the American Book-of-the-Month Club , an organisation newly formed that year. It became popular with the public...

When this, like ID 's first book, became a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, she felt it would cheapen the recognition awarded the earlier work—showing that she misinterpreted this commercial honour as a purely critical one.

The Joys of Motherhood was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1979, and BE received a Best British Writer's Award for it in 1980.Katherine Frank wrote a review article about her first five novels...

This book was a joint Book-of-the-Month Club choice in the USA, and earned RG about $20,000. Spencer Curtis concluded he had been wrong to condemn it; but she feared he might have been right.

Richard Gidez feels that this book represents P. D. James at her best. Reviewers were full of praise for this long but well-plotted novel. They appreciated its evocative descriptions of setting, its believable and...

Critics gave this book a good deal of positive critical attention, and it reached a wider audience than James's usual mystery novels simply because it was not of that genre. Many readers responded to it...

Critics received this book positively: they enjoyed its entertainment value, considered the pace good, the plot steady, the writing stylish, and the solution surprising and satisfying. It became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Richard Gidez insisted...